Ken wrote:
> 
> Nathan Kopp wrote:
> >
> > Jerry Anning wrote:
> > >
> > > My bottom line suggestion is: avoid "fan art" - no Enterprises, Batmen, Tie
> > > fighters, Mickey Mice etc.  Don't make a specific trademark or trademarked
> > > character the focus of your image.  And if you do have a trademarked item in the
> > > image, for safety's sake don't do anything that could be interpreted as
> > > disparaging it.
> >
> > I was planning to do a scene from a novel for "Imaginary Worlds".  If all
> > of the artwork is original, but the concept for the scene comes from
> > copyrighted material, what kind of laws apply?
> >
> > This would NOT be a copy of an existing illustration (well, not one that I
> > have ever seen).
> >
> > -Nathan
> 
> I see no conflict of interest in this. If as you say your material
> is original there is no one who can contest it's ownership despite
> what the inspiration is.


Sorry Ken, Nathan.  That *is* considered a copyright infringement.  If you
create an image of, say, Callandor in the Stone of Tear (nudge, nudge), even
though you create the image yourself as you imagine it, you are infringing the
author's copyright.  Incidentally, most of what I have been saying is not just
US based, but a matter of nearly universal international law (the Treaty of
Berne).

Jerry Anning
cle### [at] dholcom

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