Acknowledgements

[robkelk]

Hmm. In this age of hypertext, I wonder if a list like this needs to be added to each relevant fanfic, or if a simple line of 'Standard copyrights and acknowledgements apply', with a link to this list or one like it on the author's site would work?

That would be lovely. The problem there is that I'm not aware of any such list other than this one. (For an industry that fights so hard to make copyright laws work in their favour, they certainly make it difficult to find the information needed to enforce those laws. Mind you, going to the extent that I went to also provides the information needed to determine when something falls out of copyright.)

If anybody wants to link to it for this purpose, I wouldn't mind.

Well.  I certainly add a list like that to everything I write.  In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Rob used my usual format as the model for this list.

I did, and I implied as much in the first line of the post:

Following the precedent set by the forum owner in his solo fan works, ...