06-23-2004, 08:48 AM
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.
THe "through the looking glass" references in The Matrix are not from Alice in Wonderland -- they are fron the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, "Through the Looking Glass." I admitted this above, and did not claim to be original in the way of my title.
Now, because our two stories have the same name, a person may be confused -- but should that be a problem for us? If someone, looking to read my "Through the Looking Glass" ends up reading, and perhaps even liking, your own story by the honest mistake, is it a problem to you? Is it a problem to you if somebody, by that same mistake, reads my story thinking it's yours, and likes it? I don't see the fault in our stories--which are in different genres, neither superior to any other--sharing a title, and maybe if you can point one out to me I will consider changing it.
The original idea for this was as a Tamers story, where Takato would discover the change in the morning, while looking in the mirror. I suppose "Mon in the Mirror" would have provoked no less of a reaction from you, though would it, considering the similarity of that title to your own "Mirror in the Mon" story?
Instead, thinking of this as a sort of "outside the Matrix" version of the Digimon stories, I put thought into it, still wanting to name it after the same scene, and settled on "Through the Looking Glass", because as a child (I've said this before) it was my favorite book. It also happened to flow with the Matrix type of concept, because of their references to Lewis Carroll's classics of children's literature. It fit my idea, so I used it. NObody should need to get hurt over the title.
THe "through the looking glass" references in The Matrix are not from Alice in Wonderland -- they are fron the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, "Through the Looking Glass." I admitted this above, and did not claim to be original in the way of my title.
Now, because our two stories have the same name, a person may be confused -- but should that be a problem for us? If someone, looking to read my "Through the Looking Glass" ends up reading, and perhaps even liking, your own story by the honest mistake, is it a problem to you? Is it a problem to you if somebody, by that same mistake, reads my story thinking it's yours, and likes it? I don't see the fault in our stories--which are in different genres, neither superior to any other--sharing a title, and maybe if you can point one out to me I will consider changing it.
The original idea for this was as a Tamers story, where Takato would discover the change in the morning, while looking in the mirror. I suppose "Mon in the Mirror" would have provoked no less of a reaction from you, though would it, considering the similarity of that title to your own "Mirror in the Mon" story?
Instead, thinking of this as a sort of "outside the Matrix" version of the Digimon stories, I put thought into it, still wanting to name it after the same scene, and settled on "Through the Looking Glass", because as a child (I've said this before) it was my favorite book. It also happened to flow with the Matrix type of concept, because of their references to Lewis Carroll's classics of children's literature. It fit my idea, so I used it. NObody should need to get hurt over the title.