06-23-2004, 03:24 PM
Nate Hunter Wrote:Noto, here's the thing: No title can be copyrighted, so I can't be forced in any way to change my story's title. Furthermore, I have no desire to change it, because I feel it fits the idea.
Actually, titles can be copyrighted so to say. Book publishers often reserve/copyright names ahead of times to insure that they get this title when an author's work is ready to be published officially. If there was no such thing, I could easily try to publish a novel with the name of "War and Peace" or "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". These titles are already taken however.
Since no one really copyrights their lemons or fanfics on here (due to the characters being borrowed from Toei Animation and whatever else) you are correct in the fact that you don't have to change your title, and no one is going to force you to do so.
It would however be a nice common courtesy to avoid using the same title as someone else in the community's work since they have used it before you. It doesn't matter where/why you thought of using it as the end result remains the same. Furthermore, it doesn't matter in the slightest that his story under the title you want to use is a lemon or not. This is just a simple excuse you're trying to throw out there.
Truely you are correct, no one will force you to do anything, but it would be nice to see some sort of respect for other people's stories and such even if they are unofficially "copyrighted". Just my two cents, though I know you wont agree with me.