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Discussion Week 15

Discussion Week 15

Q As we read about intellectual property, your discussion will be about Case #4 on page 535: read the paragraph and answer the question: should Alice Randall win her case? Alice Randall wrote a novel entitled, The Wind Done Gone, which tells the Civil War novel Gone with the Wind from the perspective of Scarlett O'Hara's (imagined) black half-sister and slave. The novel does no use any of the names of the original, but clearly references the same characters, places, and plot lines. Randall was sued, but (she) alleged fair use. Should she win? Please remember to spell check your discussion before posting and responding to one other student post will allow you to receive 20 point total.

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Intellectual property is intangible in nature. This could come in the form of patents, trademark, or copyrights. The case pattern has more to do with copyrights, which deals with a creator’s exclusive ownership of a material and the right to exclusively distribute and perform the original work. Copyrights are protected for the life of the author plus 70 years if the work is owned by an individual. For corporations, the term is limited to either 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation. So, copyright infringement might involve some form of plagiarism of the original authors’ work.