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Re:Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?) by bigbadfeline on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:05AM (#45925189)
> Does creating a movie give you the right to its novelization?

Go to imdb and see some of plot summaries there. Is that what you call "novelization"? Are you going to sue that site?

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Re:Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?) by bawolff on Friday November 14, 2025 @06:08AM (#45925762)
> Is that what you call "novelization"?

No, because that's not what the definition of novelization is. By novelization i mean when someone makes a novel version of a movie.

The point im trying to make here is we regularly expect translations from one medium to another to be copyrighted, so why is this different?

> Are you going to sue that site?

No, because i believe it to be a pretty text book example of fair use.

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