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Questionable Questing

Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
After all, not only would authors no longer be the creators and intellectual parents of their settings, they'd actually be guilty using the likeness and personage of countless others without their permission.
pepperjack
pepperjack
I think ... not entirely? Trademark is still a thing, as are specific artistic representations and writing styles. Biographies still have copyright, after all, even when the subjects of the biography are "public domain," as it were.

There would be impacts, for sure, but books would also continue to be sold.
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Do you not need permission to write a biography on someone living?
Also, many authors would have written things that are DEEPLY intrusive into the lives of those featured. All fictional smut would come under question as the subject character's right not to be unwillingly 'taped' for porn became relevant.
pepperjack
pepperjack
If anything you make up is necessarily an accurate description of truth, I think that the concept of intrusiveness is more likely to go than the concept of "ORIGINAL CHARACTER DONUT STEAL."
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
But Cheese, Donut Steel would be just as real in the multiverse as Bagel Bread.
Or rather, the 'original' one.
pepperjack
pepperjack
"All persons, events, settings, etc. described herein are fictional in the context of this work's universe of origin, and any resemblance to actual persons, events, settings, etc. is strictly due to mathematical necessity, and is not otherwise intentional on the part of the author."
Plotvitalnpc
Plotvitalnpc
Well, I suppose the alternative is the death of fiction in favor of imported, authorized documentaries and biographies from other worlds.
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