Remilia Scarlet

IMJack said:

Which begs the question: When is it a tribute, and when is it idea-theft?

Depends. In the case of satire or parody, you can get away with quite a lot of borrowing, and it is still considered legitimate. Otherwise, there's "fair dealing for the purpose of criticism or review", but the accepted limits on that are pretty tight - and the use really has to be as described (criticism or review). Other than that, you can't legitimately borrow much more than short quotes without specific permission.

IMJack said:

... I would read this, if you would post it.

It's up here: http://www.du.edu/~ahunt/accesssaga.doc

I recommend first going to a Japanese website, such as toho.co.jp or yahoo.co.jp to have windows install Japanese text support.

Also, you should know that it was never finished. I cut out a huge chunk, about half the story, from the middle to meet our maximum page limit in class. That and it was written in about an hour, heh.

Hey I read these books. It only took 9 months. The last one was best.