Re: famous fictional characters

At 10:08 AM 4/26/96 EDT, Wayne G. Hammond wrote:
>
> That said, I don't think any copyright or license holders have yet
> objected to fiction being published on fan bulletin boards, e.g. by
> fans of Star Trek or Star Wars.

While I'm not sure if any such fan-written fiction actually exists, the creator of Babylon 5 has made it quite clear that he will object in the strongest possible fashion to such fiction. That may be a special case, given the unusually singular control he has over that series (he wrote this entire season himself, which is apparently the first time anyone has ever done that for a television series).

Richard A. Schafer
<schafer[_at_]mail.utexas.edu>

We believe that a jury could find it objectively unreasonable to require someone to put his hands up and calmly surrender while a police dog bites his scrotum.
Kopf v. Wing, 942 F.2d at 268 (4th Cir., 1991). Received on Tue Apr 30 1996 - 06:44:21 GMT