Re: Steven Brust Firefly Novel

"Aaron Denney" <wnoise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 2008-02-15, Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> "nanook" <no_one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:b8h9r35c0rdiarn6ap0opsnd745tcfgd8l@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> For fans of Firefly, Steven Brust has made available his facfic novel
>>> at his website
>>> http://dreamcafe.com
>>> On another page he has a PayPal donate button.
>>>
>>> If you like the novel, give him a buck or 2 to encourage another.
>>>
>>> A fan of Brust and Firefly
>>
>> Unless he has the express written permission of Joss Whedon and co.
that
>> donantion may violate not just copyright but trademark.
>
> Brust's distribution of the novel may violate copyright and trademark,
> but in what way would donations to Brust violate either?
>
> -- 
> Aaron Denney
> -><-

Making a PROFIT off a someone else's copyrighted and trademarked work is 
what lawyers are made for. New Line Cinema had permission and being sued
for 
not paying enough to those who have the copyright and trademark.

-- Ken from Chicago