From: pvk@oz.net Reply-To: tft@brainiac.com To: tft@brainiac.com Subject: RE: (TFT) fiction ? Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:28:37 -0700 (PDT) I used to game with Christine Morgan, who writes stories largely based on gaming (generally GURPS). She's a great GM, too. http://www.christine-morgan.org Here's a forward by Steve Jackson to one of her first books: http://magelore.com/foreword.html PvK
Interesting. Do you know how she deals with copyright issues? Is the fiction enough of a derivative work to require permission from SJG as the copyright holder of GURPS? Or, does she change the details enough so it's her own original work ?
For example, I think the old Traveller game is rich with possibilities as a milieu for fiction. But who currently owns the rights to Traveller, if someone wanted to write stories in Traveller's setting of the Third Imperium ? Likewise, who owns the copyrights if someone wanted to write stories in the TFT's setting of Cidri ?
Cheers. -- John ===== Post to the entire list by writing to tft@brainiac.com. Unsubscribe by mailing to majordomo@brainiac.com with the message body "unsubscribe tft"