This panel is from last year’s Life the Universe and Everything. There are some wonderful panels at this symposium. I hope these ideas can be of use to you as well.

–        Some reason the remakes of others are lion King is a retelling of Hamlet, John’s is a retelling of Moby Dick.

–        Plasma? Magazine = look it up.

–        If it’s up on the Internet that does not mean it’s free.

–        50 shades of gray was originally fan fiction from twilight.

–        Copyright lasts up to 70 years beyond the death of the author.

–        To write fiction from someone else’s creation and need to be added upon and change drastically. In these be transformed in a new way.

–        The more you use it to change the way the less it is copyrighted.

–        Nonfiction can be used for sarcasm and critiques, etc.

–        Use as little as possible of the original piece and changes as much as you can.

–        The bigger the name of the author, the more likely you are to be sued.

–        You might be able to quote one paragraph of someone else’s. And that’s all right.

–        Using material before 1923 is okay.

–        Websites to check out copyrights are on Google books/and copyright.gov.

–        You own each photograph you take.

–        The author is 100% responsible for copyrights infringements. The author will be responsible for the lawyer fees of themselves and the person suing them.

–        Copyright is abused when the author intentionally taps into the intellectual property of the original, such as Star Trek.

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