Sorry about that, had a small problem pasting. Since others have pointed out
most of the points I made in the intended reply I will just add the important
and informative part of my reply. This is a good resource for writers of all
sorts including fanfic authors;

If you need more info on copyright law, check out the US copyright office at:

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright>http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

There is also lots of foreign and international copyright law info out
there. I
recently found� a page on Ukrainian copyright law.

Later,

C-chan
who spends way too much time dealing with all this copyright junk.