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Reading Time: 4 MinutesNOTE: YOU CANNOT PRINT OUT AND BIND MY WORK FOR SALE. YOU CANNOT PUT MY WORK ONTO A PRINT-ON-DEMAND PLATFORM FOR SALE. SELLING FAN FICTION IS A CRIME. SELLING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF ANOTHER PERSON WITHOUT PERMISSION IS A CRIME. Aside: You can be fined up to 150,000 dollars per work for willful infringement. But you’ve got that covered, right? * * * * From time to time people ask me if they can play with my ideas or whatever. The thing is that you can’t actually claim copyright on an idea or a theme. If you could — well TV would be SPARSE on the programming front and they would’ve stopped making movies shortly after my birth. Harry Potter isn’t the first kid to go to magical school. Ariel wasn’t the first (or the last) mermaid to fall in love with a human. Eragon wasn’t the first dude to live with his uncle (who was then murdered by a bad guy) only to find he had a secret sibling… (yeah, but Luke wasn’t the first one to do that either)… and later ride a dragon… Well, maybe in that particular order Eragon might be slightly unique but I wouldn’t bet my ass on it. He certainly isn’t the first or the last person to ride a dragon in fictional history. But then, you can’t even copyright a PLOT. Seriously, you can’t. Fern Gully = Avatar. Cinderella = Pretty Woman = practically every contemporary romance novel written in the…