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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Starbuck: [QB] Okay, here's that info on Pocket Books and Trek novel contracts. It's taken from Margaret Wander Bonanno's website, [URL=http://www.margaretwanderbonanno.com/bio.htm]here[/URL]. [QUOTE]Usually when a writer sells a novel to a publishing company, the copyright is issued in the writer's name. In other words, while the writer has given the publisher the right to publish the book, the words themselves still belong to the writer. Those words cannot be changed by anyone without the writer's permission. Under a work-for-hire contract, the words belong to someone else. In the case of Star Trek novels, they belong to the movie studio which leases the rights to a publishing company, which allows a writer to borrow the characters and the settings from their very successful "property" - i.e., a certain TV/film series of our acquaintance - in order to write a novel. Once the novel is finished, the writer not only has to put the characters back where she found them, but the words she has written no longer belong to her, but to the movie company.[/QUOTE]And on Diane Duane's [URL=http://www.owlsprings.com/trekfaq.htm]FAQ page[/URL]: [QUOTE][b]Can I use your characters?[/b] If it's Trek characters you mean, then the only answer is, they're not ours. Everything in a Trek novel is "work for hire", which means it belongs to Paramount Pictures, lock, stock and barrel: check the copyright notice. No matter that a given writer creates the characters: Paramount owns them...and permission to use is therefore not the writer's to give. But thanks for the thought... :) [/QUOTE]So that's from whence I derive the train of thought that Paramount could, if they wished, do a story with the Hamalki, or John Ford's Klingons, or any other literary race. As for the Gorn... well, I think they'd be a better adversary with modern costume/makeup and effects technology. I gather the poor guy in "Arena" was running around the California desert in a rubber wetsuit, hence the stiff gait. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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