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[handful_ofdust]

Fascinating, calm and reasonable breakdown of where and how numbers-filing blurs into fanfiction and then past that into outright plagiarism, here (http://icarusancalion.livejournal.com/741394.html?format=light).

Also: Ha HA, God damn. Wonderful Charlie POV, yet another A/U branching off from the ending of 3:10 to Yuma, this one dealing head-on with the dicey issue of having to choose whether or not to live on without Ben: "Promised Land", by Bliss--Ben/Charlie, Charlie/William Evans (http://paragraph.livejournal.com/35405.html).

Comments

[baggyeyes]

I made a pdf of the page so I could read it offline. I have trouble reading large blocks of text - after a point everything becomes another language to me. (Makes editing fun!)

It is an excellent argument. But how would that work in the copyright minefield? The Bronte work is in public domain, is it not?

Unless I read the text wrong - I do that with a brain made of swiss cheese.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

No, I think you have it right re the copyright issue. I've always wondered about my Gangs of New York stuff, since so much of that goes back to the Asbury book/"real history"...but no, since it branches off from the screenplay itself, we're still in the realm of sue-ability. Pity.