Sucher says there are clear advantages to introducing fiction and fictional characters into the discourse.
This is one of the oldest professions practiced by fictional characters: illustrating how humans ought to behave.
Aren't the fictional characters of great writing-- Hamlet, Raskolnikov, Emma Bovary--at least as compelling as real people?
They were all members of the 2010 Forbes Fictional 15, our annual ranking of the richest fictional characters.
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Our readers' fascination with the super-rich continued unabated--favorites ranged from the top-earning celebrities to the top-earning fictional characters.
Many of the attendees participated in cosplay activities, dressing up in elaborate costumes to celebrate their favorite fictional characters.
It has been a constant struggle to include female characters on the Forbes Fictional 15, our annual ranking of the richest fictional characters.
Scrooge and Marley is basically a collection agency micro-business, whose proprietor did not even make the Forbes 15 List of Wealthiest Fictional Characters.
He is one of a number of outrageous fictional characters that Britain has let loose on the world during the past few decades.
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Other fictional characters may not be immediately protectable under trademark law since they are not inherently distinctive and have not yet developed secondary meaning.
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In particular, fictional characters within a work are presumed to be simply ideas unless they are sufficiently developed to legally constitute elements of expression.
FORBES: Protecting Fictional Characters: Could You Legally Write A New Harry Potter Novel?
Is this account more affecting because it's built around fictional characters?
In my latest novel, "The Retrospective, " I tried to portray, in the form of fictional characters, the two forces that contend within me as an artist.
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Two Mudd children, Summer and Clay, were given their own MySpaces pages, and real teens began interacting with the fictional characters, whose posts were written by 30-year-old marketers.
Copyright protection provides the owner exclusive rights to use, copy and adapt the fictional characters, as well as other related rights, subject only to copyright defenses such as fair use or expiration.
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This axiomatic principle is easy to state but can be difficult to apply in the context of fictional characters because a properly copyrighted work does not mean every element of the work is protected.
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Courts have applied the various facets of unfair competition law to protect fictional characters and, similar to trademark law, prevent the wrongful use of fictional characters in connection with goods and services of third parties.
FORBES: Protecting Fictional Characters: Could You Legally Write A New Harry Potter Novel?
The conclusion drawn at the end of the experiment was that often times, we can take on some of the traits of fictional characters we become engrossed with, and their stories can affect our daily lives.
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Not satisfied with piratey puns or bad jokes about the "poopdeck, " these people express themselves through cosplay -- the fan-centric practice of dressing up as fictional characters -- and take great pride in their imaginative creations.
The case provides a good opportunity to review the laws relating to the protection of fictional characters which implicate unauthorized sequels and adaptations of existing works, the popular and widespread subculture of fan fiction, and many other applications.
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With a single tap, readers can see all passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics that interest them, as well as more detailed descriptions from Wikipedia and Shelfari, Amazon's community-powered encyclopedia for book lovers.
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And courts have sometimes failed to properly apply the legal requirements for trademarks, choosing to base their decisions on the outstanding celebrity and unique recognition of fictional characters, or lack thereof, instead of focusing on their inherent distinctiveness and ability to act as a single source identifier for the applicable goods or services.
FORBES: Protecting Fictional Characters: Could You Legally Write A New Harry Potter Novel?
By recognizing ourselves in fictional characters sent slaloming through the moral and ethical gates of life, we find our own repertoire of choices widened at those crucial moments when we, too, have to figure out what to do when a parent dies, a spouse deserts us, or the pilot gets on the PA system and advises us all to pray.
Still the role models presented to young girls and women through fictional or historical characters are more often than not those who come to a bad end if they are not self-sacrificing, or are rewarded (with the man, usually) if they do put their own aspirations aside.
But Wade is keen to point out that her characters are purely fictional.
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One is haunted by the story as if the characters are not fictional.
Below you can see the female characters on each Fictional 15 since 2005, with their rank, source of wealth and net worth.
Fictional or historical, the characters are often portrayed as latter-day Robin Hoods, victims of oppression or the everyman brutalized by an economy or authority, Rapping said.
The Belleville Lounge in Brooklyn hosts The Do What's in Your Heart Show, of live hope-inducing storytelling, and Real Characters Storytelling, which weaves fictional character performances into real stories.
Bill Lumbergh and Miranda Priestley may both be very different fictional movie (and book, for the latter) characters, but they share something in common.
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