Are there any Star Wars Fans out there?

[HandcuffGirl]

Hi all,
I need an editor that is familiar with Star Wars. Specifically The Jedi Knights Tahiri Veila and Tenel Ka. Also Alema Rar and Jaina Solo for a later story. The story takes place between the Yuuzhan Vong War and the Dark Nest Crisis. If you would like to help me, please email me at ahandcuffgirl2 at yahoo.com Just put Star Wars Editor in the subject line. (I get a lot of email, I don't want to delete it by mistake)

Bethany

P. S.
The story has a lot of
bondage in it.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

Are there any Star Wars Fans out there?

Yes, very much so. I hope you have written permission to use the Star Wars intellectual property when writing your story.

If you haven't then I hope you are rich enough to pay the damages they will claim against you and Literotica if you steal their ideas.

 

[hunghung]

i am a fan - but not farmiliar with that

 

[September Skye]

Yes, very much so. I hope you have written permission to use the Star Wars intellectual property when writing your story.

If you haven't then I hope you are rich enough to pay the damages they will claim against you and Literotica if you steal their ideas.

Wouldn't happen. She wouldn't be using the names for a commercial purpose.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

Wouldn't happen. She wouldn't be using the names for a commercial purpose.

Literotica is a commercial site. Readers may not pay to read, but the owners do not run it out of the goodness of their hearts - they make money from it.

 

[sr71plt]

Literotica is a commercial site. Readers may not pay to read, but the owners do not run it out of the goodness of their hearts - they make money from it.

Right.

There may be some confusion here, though. The Star Wars characters can't willy nilly be used because they are trademarked. So everyone understands we aren't talking about copyright law here, right? These are two different areas of law. Trademarked names can't be used safely in any of the uses that they might be if the use was in the realm of copyright (e.g., in paraodies, satires).

Damages in a trademark suit are based on the profit illegally made off them (because they have not been licensed from the owner for use) and the damage to reputation/basic nature of the characters. If you posted a Star Wars story here and got sued, it would be both the author and the site that would be sued. The site would be sued for a slice of whatever profit they make from the site (so, you can see why they would be "thrilled" to post your story), and you'd be sued for whatever the court could decide was a slice of your enhanced profitability from the story (probably not much).

Where they'd really take a slice out of your income if they liked would be in the twisting of the trademarked characters to do something out of the character of their established personality. If you took a character and made him/her/it perform SM in your story, you could count on (A) the trademark owner to be royally pissed, (B) for them to sue if their attention was brought to your story (both you and the Web site), and (C) the courts awarding them an outsized settlement because of the nature of damage your use of the characters did to the nature of the trademarked character.

The best approach is to create your own worlds and not be a parasite on the worlds others have brought to profitabiity.

 

[freshface]

Right.

There may be some confusion here, though. The Star Wars characters can't willy nilly be used because they are trademarked. So everyone understands we aren't talking about copyright law here, right? These are two different areas of law. Trademarked names can't be used safely in any of the uses that they might be if the use was in the realm of copyright (e.g., in paraodies, satires).

Damages in a trademark suit are based on the profit illegally made off them (because they have not been licensed from the owner for use) and the damage to reputation/basic nature of the characters. If you posted a Star Wars story here and got sued, it would be both the author and the site that would be sued. The site would be sued for a slice of whatever profit they make from the site (so, you can see why they would be "thrilled" to post your story), and you'd be sued for whatever the court could decide was a slice of your enhanced profitability from the story (probably not much).

Where they'd really take a slice out of your income if they liked would be in the twisting of the trademarked characters to do something out of the character of their established personality. If you took a character and made him/her/it perform SM in your story, you could count on (A) the trademark owner to be royally pissed, (B) for them to sue if their attention was brought to your story (both you and the Web site), and (C) the courts awarding them an outsized settlement because of the nature of damage your use of the characters did to the nature of the trademarked character.

The best approach is to create your own worlds and not be a parasite on the worlds others have brought to profitabiity.

I have a similar understanding of trademark law. It does make me curious though. If you wander through the Celebrities section of this site, there are all sorts of trademark characters doing all sorts of unsavory things. A quick check showed Scooby-Doo, Spiderman, X-Man, and a whole host of TV show characters. There's even a story featuring Luke Skywalker and Wonder Woman.

It makes me wonder if this site has been lucky so far or if the trademark holders aren't interested in pursuing it.

 

[sr71plt]

I have a similar understanding of trademark law. It does make me curious though. If you wander through the Celebrities section of this site, there are all sorts of trademark characters doing all sorts of unsavory things. A quick check showed Scooby-Doo, Spiderman, X-Man, and a whole host of TV show characters. There's even a story featuring Luke Skywalker and Wonder Woman.

It makes me wonder if this site has been lucky so far or if the trademark holders aren't interested in pursuing it.

Lucky, probably yes. Very little is caught; very little of what is caught is deemed profitable for suit.

Occasionally someone will clomp onto a minor infractor though (like napster, I think) just to make the point.

(Also, I haven't noticed this Web site being all that clear/savvy about their risk--they allow copyright infringement left and right.)

 

[emap]

Do keep in mind the majority of the characters you mentioned have been around for decades, scooby first aired in 1963 I think it was, X-men have been in comics since at least 1973, I beleive it was more late 60's that they appeared I don't recall offhand.

Which means, Scooby Doo and the gang, the X-men, Wonder Woman and actually Luke Skywalker are not really strictly licensed anymore. I forget the actual termage to use but they are more or less public property in everybody knows who they are and what they do.

Which means so long as you don't use things done in the recent movies you are pretty free and clear to do stories of Scooby and Shaggy shagging Velma, or Velma and Daphne shagging Fred and so forth. It is when you start doing things used in the movies or comics done recently, say the last ten years that the companies will sit up say hey and sick a whole battallion of lawyers on your and Literotica's butt. Of course certain people would be more interested in doing this than others, Lucas and Rowling topping the list.

Which means, do not use the names of the characters from the books or the recent movies, do not use the same sections of planet seen in said movies, do not use anything from the books because then you get Lucas and the authors of said books coming after you.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

D... Of course certain people would be more interested in doing this than others, Lucas and Rowling topping the list. ...

Don't forget Disney.

 

[emap]

Oh yeah and Disney, though Disney has a pretty good excuse, They don't really let any characters fade into public domain territory. Hence the releasing the videos on DVD every ten years.

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

... fade into public domain ...

I'm sorry to say that this is not a concept recognised by copyright laws or the Berne Convention. The law says seventy years after the death of the author, with only a very few exceptions.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm sorry to say that this is not a concept recognised by copyright laws or the Berne Convention. The law says seventy years after the death of the author, with only a very few exceptions.

Repeat: This topic is one concerning trademark law, not copyright law. Two different animals.