From: "Bear Town" <beartown-AT-bear-town.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Re: rights, royalties, and permissions
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 00:17:25 -0500


Thanks for clarifying that Kathleen, I was expecting that you'd be able to
weigh in with more definative answers.

What works of Neil's did you adapt? Do you still do the shows?

- Andrew


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathleen David" <kathodavid-AT-mac.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: PUPT: Re: rights, royalties, and permissions


> > At what point does a work become derivative? When a work is "based on
the
> > work of X" how do you title and sell that work? For example, all of the
> > derivative "Star Wars" books - would they have written the book first
and
> > submitted it to George Lucas and/or the publisher for permission to
> publish
> > it or would they have to get permission to write it first?
>
> These books are almost always assigned by the publisher, but I would
imagine
> that an esthablished writer of Star Wars fiction could submit original
ideas
> to the publisher. Also, authors usually submit only an outline and a
chapter
> or two for this type of project. >>>
>
> Actually I can speak to the Star Wars books and most media derived
properties having been an editor on both Star Wars and Star Trek books.
>
> All Star Wars books started on the publisher's end. The editor goes to the
author or the author's agent and asks if they want to write a Star Wars
book. Then the editor and the author and a member of Lucasfilm discuss the
project. George is kept informed by his people as to what is going on in his
universe. So the flow went fron Lucasfilm to the editor to the writer. No
unsoliciated submissions were allowed unless you WERE George Lucas. It
didn't matter who you were or how many books you had published.
>
> My husband writes, among other things, Star Trek novels. He has a series
called Star Trek: The New Frontier which he has created. Any character he
creates for the series belongs to Paramont . He has had people coming up and
asking him about getting their Star Trek worlds published. He ask them how
tied in is their work to the known Star Trek universe. If they say that it's
an original ship/world he tells them to take it out of the licensed universe
and make it their own because that way they own it rather than Paramont.
>
> Public Domain does have a lot of work avaible to use.
>
> Occationally, if you know the author of the work, you can get written
permission. I was lucky that I knew Neil Gaiman and he gave me permission to
create puppet shows based on two of his works. His only request was that he
had script approval. He approved the script with a few minor changes that
didnt' effect the puppets we had created for the pieces.
>
> Hope hope this helps clarify some of your questions.
>
> Kathleen
>
>
>
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