thread: 2006-01-13 : Push and pull aside, co-ownership
On 2006-01-16, Roger wrote:
This (perhaps inevitably) seems to be leading towards a great big involved discussion about just what ownership means in this context. Which might not be a bad discussion to have, somewhere, sometime; for the moment, I'll just try to fake it.
In the most general case, I think Ann may still own her character backstory. More specifically, I don't think I know enough about their System to say one way or the other.
The biggest piece of evidence that I can think of to support the notion that there are lots of people who don't believe creation equals ownership is all those thousands of pages of fan fiction.
Or consider the hue and cry raised when Doyle tried to kill off Sherlock Holmes.
I'm not trying to convince anyone that these views are correct or accurate when it comes to creation and ownership. I'm just trying to convey that there is a wide range of opinions on the subject.
Of course, one may fairly say that I totally wussed out on actually answering Vincent's question. My own personal opinion is that Ann owns her character's backstory, even though Ben created it, because Ben has implicitly given it to Ann as a gift. But I'm well-aware that Ann and Ben may well have different opinions on the subject.
