Showing posts with label Twilight. Show all posts
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Sue Profile 005: Atlantiana Loren

Atlantiana Rebekah Loren
She is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way of the Twilight fandom. She is the main character of the fanfic: Forbiden Fruit: the tempation of Edward Cullen. She also has multicolored hair and likes the same stuff that Ebony does, except that she's blonde (which ironically, Ebony hates) and tall (because it's very probable that Ebony is about Amy Lee's height, considering that Ebony said that people think she looks like Amy Lee.). Other than that, she seems to be the perfect substitute for Ebony if ever this character was placed in My Immortal.

Now, without further ado... (okay. You have to press the read more link if you haven't already.)

Sue Profile 004: Fenuella Swan

Fenuella Sarah Jessica Parker Sheen-Swan
When I was still writing my trollfic, I was expecting that all my reviews would, of course, be flame reviews. (I did get a kick out of people getting annoyed over nothing, but the kick got old soon enough when I had to start arguing with people who actually share my personal viewpoint.) However, there is this person who got mad at me over having a fanfic that shares a title with hers.

This is a screenshot of the review:

NeVa.say.NeVa2 says, umm, like, this could be a real good story lol but you stole my title umm...wtf? One Less Lonely Gurl is mine, bitch, so back off. I'll only forgive you if you agree to give me some acknowledgement or something. Don't copy people's stuff, right?

Actually, titles are not covered by copyright.

Proof?
"The good news is that song titles are not copyrightable. The Code of Federal Regulations provides that: “words and short phrases such as names, titles, and slogans” are “not subject to copyright and applications for registration of such works cannot be entertained.” 37 C.F.R. § 202.1(a). Case law confirms this, although at least one case suggests that a title that is completely fanciful and arbitrary, such as “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” might be entitled to copyright protection. However, that does not seem to be an issue here because you have suggested the title is a common phrase. Moreover, because the title is a common phrase, it would not be entitled to copyright protection even if song titles could be copyrighted because in order to obtain a copyright, the work must be original. Therefore, you should not be held liable for copyright infringement for using a song title as the title of your movie. The bad news is your movie title will not be copyrightable either."

I don't think that One Less Lonely Gurl/One Less Lonely Girl is copyrightable because many fanfics have already used this phrase as a title. Justin Bieber has never sued any of us, however, no matter how awful most fanfics with this title are. I did apologize to her over something that isn't my fault at all, then she gave me a rather unexpected positive review on my story, trying her best to back me up despite all the flame comments that my story actually deserves.

Now, without further ado, the Mary Sue of the other One Less Lonely Gurl, Fenuella! She has got to be the most annoying-looking sue I drew so far. Just becose...