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- Aug 31, 2011Kimberly,When you mentioned your novel I've still got my
unfinished Yellow Rose/Starsky and Hutch novel that I keep going back to, but so
far it has yet to see the light of day in public.
I had assumed you were writing a mainstream novel as well.Are you doing fan fiction?I know from looking into the X-Files books I found that the copyright holder was Fox and not the individual author. I was asking permission to use the characters, but the copyright would have still been in Warner Bros name not mine similar to the X-file books. I would have had to pay a licensing fee to use the charcters. I was asking for derivative rights just to use the characters in an entirely new novel set later on in the future etc. They still wouldn't let me use anything.
KrisOn Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:49 PM, KimberlyFDR <kimberlyfdr@...> wrote:> I contacted Warner Brothers who holds the copyright for the YRThat's the long debate between fanfiction versus mainstream fiction, though. From my understanding, you were trying to publish a mainstream novel, which would net you monetary gain off someone else's copyright. Fanfiction writers don't go that avenue. They disclaim any rights and write under the fair use act because they're not making any monetary gains from their work.
> characters, theme song and scripts for the shows. I was told
> absolutely NO!!! they would not give me permission to use the
> characters in any novel.
Though, that does remind me (and I still wonder about this) whether Barbara Hambly, the author of the Star Trek novel Ishmael, got permission to cross with Here Come the Brides and make mention of multiple other television characters within the book. I would assume yes, since she was contracted through Star Trek, but I don't know for sure.
--KimberlyFDR
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