Timeline for My novel was inspired by a golden-age musical. The setting is different but the plot threads and characters are similar. Am I plagiarizing?
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| Sep 2 at 22:09 | comment | added | Antares | @gidds An example: "An old man finds a rusty sabre and hands it to his nephew Lars to train." - this is not a sentence from star wars, it has just similarities and is maybe inspired by it. If you write "Ben, a Jedi from the old days, hands a lightsabre to his padawan Luke to train" - this becomes critical. You can deem it as Fan-Fiction but then you are not allowed to earn money from it. If you publish this as your own work and earn money, the IP-owner will probably file an IP infringement (not copyright infringement directly, because you did not "republish" one of their works). | |
| Sep 2 at 22:07 | comment | added | Antares | @gidds: A derived work needs to openly state that it is a derived work - which is only legal if the original is published under an appropriate license like GPL, CC-BY-... etc. and it has to obey the rules by that licsense as well! -- If you do not copy passages in verbatim (and other points stated above like trademarked names etc.) but write a story by taking aspects from the original written in own words, then you create a "new" original work. Similarities are not forbidden by copyright per se, only if it has the notion of "that is mainly a copy-of but 50% were changed". | |
| Sep 2 at 21:15 | comment | added | gidds | Could OP's novel count as a derived work of the musical? (At what point does derivation become mere inspiration?) | |
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| Sep 1 at 0:04 | history | answered | Antares | CC BY-SA 4.0 |