In which Sky might be inspired again. Who knows~

[cerulean_sky]

Is there some sort of a protocol for writing a story based on a song? Is it a copyright violation in any way? Or is it not if you don't use specfic lines from the song in the story? I do this a lot--music is such a heavy influence in my writing--so I figured I might as well ask.

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[(Anonymous)]

scratch the phrasing. If it is a derivative work it is not covered. It is a transformative work -- which is kinda like derivative -- that is covered. That is to say if you transform it -- which changing its medium and expanding it is -- your covered. If it were a one-to-one translating -- that is lyrics to prose -- you could have a case for it being covered.

The key here is that if you dont make money off of it, nobody will sue you, anyway.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

It's not particularly helpful if you answer with essentially the same thing that other people have already said.

And if you're going to be a fixture on my livejournal, at least have the decency to sign your comments. Unless you know you're someone I don't want to associate with, in which case please have the decency to respect my wishes and leave me alone.