[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: GWTW Fanfic Provokes Lawsuit

[Katie Kearns]

At 09:51 PM 4/15/01 +0000, you wrote:
>That doesn't seem to matter in the case of Anne McCaffreys Pern
>books/ world.  Her people and lawyers are making things miserable for
>people involved in Yahoo clubs role playing games based on Pern- even
>if they contain none of her characters, and aren't even set in any of
>the Holds (Cities) or towns) that she uses in her books.
>
>Even clubs that are completely original, except for being set on the
>world of pern, and using her concept of Dragons, Weyrs and Thread,
>are being harassed, and told to remove their online presence (Logs of
>stories, archives of discussions) or be deleted.
>
>It's sad, but the open creativity in the HP fanfiction world could be
>lost if the Lawyers get hungry.
>
>Ellen


Not if you get permission from them.  There are may *legal* Pern MOOs, for 
example (I played Harper's Tale, and used to be on Star Stones). I just 
don't think their giving out permission to any new people, though.  It's 
her idea, and if she wants to keep people from tossing it all over the web, 
it really is up to her. She has a pretty rabid pack of lawyers.

-Katie