When writing a book, is it copyright infringment to use the name of a fictous city and/or country , created by another author?
2007-03-31 10:30:10 · 7 answers · asked by Future Top Chef 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes. You would have to refer to so and so's city, country as related in his or her original work. It would just be better to make up your own original names. I am sure if you are a good writer and creative, you will have no problem. I write music and anytime a producer gets it, it is screened to ensure not more than 8 bars ever come close to anything published previously.
2007-03-31 10:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by Joseph H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Just using the name of a city or country is not copyright infringement. It doesn't copy enough of the work to intrude on the author's creative control.
But, it can be considered a trademark violation, even for unregistered trademarks, if the city or country is well-known.
2007-03-31 18:01:57 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess what you are doing is writing a novel that will be a kind of "sequel" of another work. in that case, you should write a forward to the reader explaining how and why you have expanded on the work started by another. however if your use is just to make a parody statement, for fun or social commentary, then that is acceptable even without credit.
2007-04-01 19:00:55 · answer #3 · answered by lare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe they call that plagiarism. However if you are doing it symbolically as a way of referencing the ideas of that text you might be able to. I was thinking about the way James Baldwin gives the character in "The Blues I'm Playing" no name as a reference to "Notes From The Underground" by Dostoevsky because his character had no name.
2007-03-31 18:24:00 · answer #4 · answered by slinda 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think so. Any content by another is infringement without their permission.
Solution: Make up your own place.
2007-03-31 17:39:10 · answer #5 · answered by hotspringsjamie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is if they used it in a copyrighted book.
But if you want to use it all you need is written permission.
however if you want to just refer to it in you book you can say (the country resembles Narnia from C.S Lewis's book the chronicles of Narnia)
any other use of it Is either plagerism or copyright infrigment.
2007-03-31 17:38:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is unless you get written permission from them. also if you use passages from the book without quote mark, then it is also plagiarism.
2007-03-31 17:38:12 · answer #7 · answered by gas_indycar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋