More on derivative works

According to Sci-Fi Wire yesterday the Amazon page selling the unauthorized Star Wars novel is still there (despite my reporting that it was gone) though Lucasfilm Ltd. Legal has spoken to the author/publisher about it.

theferrett admits to being one of the people whose gut reflex to fanfiction is, "Why don't you write something original?", but nevertheless says the things I'd've said the other day if I hadn't been so mad (but his way of course).

billroper writes of the steadily vanishing status of parody as fair use (Everyone remember the The Wind Done Gone case?), and the steadily growing time limits on copyrights, to the benefit of corporate intellectual property owners and the detriment of the public domain. This puts me in mind of a discussion I had on Usenet once. ( I know, I know, I once told you I'd never cut for length. Be afraid. )

So to summarize the argument I put forward: Since death-plus-a-time-limit is the system theoretically in place, but is being abused by corporate intellectual property owners to suspend copyright expiration indefinitely, I put forward the resolution that intellectual property ought to be ownable only by actual persons and not by corporations, and ought to expire at the death(s) of the creator(s). ( footnotes )

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