Well, she’s at it again, and this time, I’m going to have some fun.
Several months ago a fan whose name I’m not even going to bother to mention declared she was going to write and publish her own sequel to “Twilight” entitled “Russet Noon.” Recently she has put forward a new treatise explaining just why copyright is meaningless. The reason is—get this—“The origin of all characters is the Shared Mind, the only mind that truly exists. Our minds are all one single ocean of shared memories, fantasies, dreams, nightmares and visions.”
Citing Edward Cullen, Harry Potter and Anakin Skywalker as examples of characters who are merely “plugged in” to archetypes and thus have no originality and therefore no entitlement to legal protection, she goes on to assert, “Laws that attempt to privatize the ownership of characters operate based on a delusion of separateness that we all share in this matrix we call reality. But according to Eckart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, there is no such a thing as separate minds. There is only one Universal Mind and it is the source of all our thoughts.”
You can read the rest of this New Age tripe here if you’re so inclined.
Now the first thing that occurred to me is that there is simply no way that I’m taking any part of the rap for Jar Jar Binks. And then I thought, Y’know what? There is, in fact, a universal mind. A hive mind, if you will. It’s called the Internet.
So let’s unleash the hive on the concept of a sequel to the “Twilight” series.
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