Copyright and Protection

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Aug 22, 2005

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Does anyone know whether say, a book, is wholly protected or at least the plot and title?

Would I be able to morph a title and plot into something very similar and produce a parody?

 

skipper734

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Shaving Ryan's Privates stylee? Would have thought plagiarism would be more applicable.

 

KZNSeagull

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Barrel of Fun said:

Does anyone know whether say, a book, is wholly protected or at least the plot and title?

Would I be able to morph a title and plot into something very similar and produce a parody?

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The title of a book is not copyrighted - many, many books have the same title. Recent parodies include "50 Sheds of Grey", so yes, you should be alright I would think, but I am not a lawyer!

 

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Plagiarism would, perhaps, be more apt. Good start!

More a parody of a popular book based upon a Victorian infanticide, but replaced by an animal instead of the child and a near identical title with just an adjective and the name of the police officer changed.

 

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Barrel of Fun said:

Plagiarism would, perhaps, be more apt. Good start!

More a parody of a popular book based upon a Victorian infanticide, but replaced by an animal instead of the child and a near identical title with just an adjective and the name of the police officer changed.

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Call it a homage to the original text, 'tis sexy plagiarism then.

 

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KZNSeagull said:

The title of a book is not copyrighted - many, many books have the same title. Recent parodies include "50 Sheds of Grey", so yes, you should be alright I would think, but I am not a lawyer!

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Ah yes. Good examples. Perhaps specific books would have different protections or one can't protect everything and anything.

 

KZNSeagull

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Barrel of Fun said:

Ah yes. Good examples. Perhaps specific books would have different protections or one can't protect everything and anything.

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I would guess that you can copyright a character, but definitely not a title. The other thing I have noticed is that where something is a parody, it says so - so the full title of the example I gave is "Fifty Sheds of Grey: A Parody". So I would think that as long as you put "A Parody", you would cover all eventualities.
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Excellent. I shall carry on then! Look out for a book signing (maybe).