Podcast: When Does Fan Art Become a Copyright Liability?
On today's social media edition of the Morning Media Menu, GalleyCat editor Jason Boog posed a copyright question: should writers be able to create new Sherlock Holmes stories?
On today’s social media edition of the Morning Media Menu, GalleyCat editor Jason Boog posed a copyright question: should writers be able to create new Sherlock Holmes stories?
The writer in question, Leslie S. Klinger, was hoping to publish a new work based on characters that he felt were established in short stories that were now in the public domain. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate disagreed.
Writing a story about a favorite character is one thing, but as soon as money changes hands on a copyrighted work, the original creator is going to have something to say about it.
We discussed a parallel example of cover songs on YouTube, where Universal Music Publishing Group has set up a deal with video distributors on ways to automatically share advertising revenue with both
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