Comment on Characters are not copyrighted by Reyniki
I'm pretty sure you have a claim over your own characters worlds, etc. It's got a a name, but I can't for the love of it remember it. Intelectual copyright or something like that... or was that only for art and not what you created itself... Hmm...
Anyway, I'm pretty sure there's way around it if you really wanna go there and hire lawyers or something or by changing a minor detail so you are bot technically claiming to have created the exact same character, but that's just loop holes in the law and will be frowned upon. There's also sites that take away your rights by agreeing to their terms of service eg. Facebook . Don't like that very much...
I'm not really knowledgable about it, but if copying words without telling where it came from or who you quoted is plagiatrism, I'm pretty sure our "intelectual property" is protected too by the law.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure there's way around it if you really wanna go there and hire lawyers or something or by changing a minor detail so you are bot technically claiming to have created the exact same character, but that's just loop holes in the law and will be frowned upon. There's also sites that take away your rights by agreeing to their terms of service eg. Facebook . Don't like that very much...
I'm not really knowledgable about it, but if copying words without telling where it came from or who you quoted is plagiatrism, I'm pretty sure our "intelectual property" is protected too by the law.