Timeline for How short can a story be in order to be sold as intellectual property?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
7 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2022 at 12:49 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=36239 by developer User.Id=55239 | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 10:31 | answer | added | Amadeus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 8:03 | history | edited | JRE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 1 character in body
|
| Oct 7, 2022 at 7:10 | comment | added | JRE | The "bugs" in the original Starship Troopers novel were a major plot point. The main character spends most of the novel involved in a war against the bugs. Hardly a "short mention." The movie missed darned near everything else the novel had to say, though. | |
| Oct 7, 2022 at 7:08 | history | edited | JRE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 1 character in body; edited title
|
| Oct 6, 2022 at 21:57 | comment | added | DWKraus | The real answer probably is "long enough to prove it was your idea." If your plot is "There are bugs and people fight them," a thousand people have had that idea. Or copied that idea. Lots of things are the same idea, but a single detail twisted to make it seem unique. Otherwise, everything is a copy of the ancient Greeks and Shakespeare (and yes, lit people, you can say Shakespeare did nothing original). The other answer is "How famous is the author?" A title might be all it has in common with a story if the name will sell a million tickets. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 21:41 | history | asked | user36239 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |