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Re: Actual B5:TLT News Indeed. It's why I'm having trouble being more than simply...happy...about the new production. It's B5, it's JMS, and I'm sure I'll love it -- and I'm damned happy to know that there's some good sf television (even if only direct to DVD) coming our way -- but it'll be...

Re: Anybody catch Melissa G on \"Nip/Tuck\"? It really does seem to be the hot show on which to guest, these days. The only stunt casting they did that I think didn't work was when they had Joan Rivers on (she made a couple of appearances last season). Maybe it's just me, but I think the work...

Ranger1, you have "Minbar" misspelled in your sig quote... I figured that with a name like "Ranger1," you'd really want to spell that correctly. :)

Re: Anybody catch Melissa G on \"Nip/Tuck\"? Gah! Gah gah gah gah gah! I think I could have recovered from the nipple-torn-out-of-her-breast shot if not for the "You left the peanut butter on the nighttable, Marlene" scene. I mean, sure, I saw it coming a mile away, too...but still, I'm...

Re: Anybody catch Melissa G on \"Nip/Tuck\"? Yeah, I saw it. I told you you were going to fall off the couch, Joe! :-)

That has got to be an urban legend. There have been military ships named "Enterprise" for centuries.

You picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

Also, Earth spearheaded the building of Babylon 5, which was meant to help keep the peace. It seems like getting them into the Shadows' fold would have been important, because even though we weren't the technological top dog, we were certainly loud and persistent -- as humans tend to be <g> --...

It all depends on how many people can afford paying for credited university courses.

Okay, I give up: what does someone who's qualified to teach literature look like? ;-)

He teaches...acting. Of course. :-)

More of a burden is on trademark owners, true, but it doesn't absolve copyright owners of all responsibility in such cases. If you can prove that a copyright owner knowingly abandoned their rights (by allowing an infringer to proceed unchecked), it will affect your settlement, and also quite...

No, that's a breach of trademark. Trademark protects images, slogans, logos, things like that. And yes, avatars using images from trademarked properties without permission are technically infringements of trademark. But no one's going to pursue you for that. No one who owns a trademark even...

Yes, but there's a BIG difference between posting a disclaimer of your own invention, and actually getting permission to use the characters and situations from the show (or even tacit permission, which is apparently what happened during the run of B5 for fan websites). Some people (not saying...

Hey, vacantlook, I hope I didn't come across as snippy with you! Because I wasn't feeling snippy! I thought it was a good question, sincerely, and I gave my best answer. Although I definitely was feeling a bit snippy from the abuse I was getting from ryuu...

Uh, ryuu, I know it's been said -- it's likely that I said it! If I'm repeating myself, it's because I know how infringers think, and your flip little comment, "or dont [sic] distribute it!" sounded like just the thing someone says when they're rationalizing in their own minds the fact that...

Do be aware, however, that posting it online is distributing it.

Yes, that's correct -- all unlicensed fan fiction is an infringement of copyright. Although, the degree to which copyright owners tolerate fan fiction varies from property to property. I'm sure many are familiar with how upset Gene Roddenberry was with K/S slash stuff; I don't know if he...

Well, first of all, what riyuu was contemplating was trademark infringement rather than copyright infringement. But to address your point, it's not strictly correct. First of all, if you wrote a book using characters from Babylon 5, again, it's trademark infringement, not copyright...

Whether or not you make money doesn't affect whether or not a use is an infringement -- it only affects the amount of the damages a trademark owner can collect. If you're not using any images or characters from B5, and since specifics of the station design weren't hugely pivotal on the show...