Derivative Works

In America, one needs permission to create "derivative works" based on copyrighted material. So I'd need George Lucas's permission to do a movie set in the Star Wars universe, even if it was made clear that it had nothing to do with Lucasfilm. The theory is that this somehow protects the work from being degraded by its descendents -- but perhaps they'd need to stop George Lucas from beating us to the punch.

Filed Fri - February 10, 2006, 12:49 PM in

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Derivative Works