On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Yoru-Hikage wrote:

John Lemon:

Sec 102 Paragraph (b) - In no case does copyright protection for an 

Section 106 contradicts this, as far as fanfiction is concerned:
"Subject to sections 107 through 120, the owner of copyright under this
title has 
the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: 
   <snip>
          (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
 <snip>"

So basically what section 102 is covering ideas and concepts, not
characters and situations (without this section, we could have the
situation where a writer such as William Gibson could say "okay, I came up
with the idea of cyberspace, so noone else can use that idea in there
works - which is clearly absurd)
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