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Reply To: Interesting Copyright Infringement

August 24, 2018 at 9:17 pm #1257101

limburger

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but at what point does a story about a student wizard become Harry Potter ?

There has to be some sort of line that needs crossing, but then … maybe that’s the problem with these kinds of disputes ?

A barbarian with a sword doesn’t have to be Conan, but there’s got to be an intermediate somewhere that triggers the dispute.

OTOH … this could lead to people creating totally-not Conan copies that technically aren’t copies but everyone else knows they are without invoking the parody excemption.

A Schrodingers’ cat copy as it were.