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[Colt_Saga]

I have a question.

If somebody has stopped posting, no longer comes to the board, etc. their character is sent to the graveyard for a month, after which it is opened up for adoption by somebody else.

How can this be done?

The creation of the character (unless it's a canon) is something that belongs to the typist. If you give that profile/bio over to a new person to take on, isn't that just like plagiarism only worse because it's not copying somebody else's work, it's actually using somebody else's work.

I know it's the internet and people copy things that aren't their own all the time, that doesn't make it right and the board can't 'own' somebody else's work.

I keep a copy of all my characters' profiles on my computer. It's my right to use them where and when I will and I know I wouldn't like it if somebody attacked me for using 'their' character on another board when in truth 'their' character may have been an adoption of a character not currently used by me.

I have had boards fade away and die and the characters that I've had I've not wanted to just let fade away with the board so it's not unusual for me to resurrect characters to use on new boards.

Take my character, Ashley who in fact is a resurrection of another character from another board which died (the board died, not the character), the application rewritten to suit this board.

The board owner can claim ownership of the creation of the board and anything else that the owner has created, including the application template if the owner created it but character creation belongs solely to the typist as do that character's posts and shouldn't just be handed over to somebody else who shows an interest in a character that's become unused on the board. (That character may not be in use here but who's to say it's not being used on another board by the character's own typist?)

The only exception I can see to this rule are characters who are intrinsic to the plot (and therefore should be canon characters anyway); however even that is fraught with argument because a canon provides only a few lines of description with a picture and perhaps a last name, while the typist is the one who completes the canon and brings him/her/it to life.

I'm just interested to know.

[ADMINameliakate]

I am speaking about the canon characters, the ones that were created for the board. They have ties and play roles that have been plotted out before hand. Having one person that isn't around for that person any longer holds up a larger group of people or have to be cut out, which in some cases causes other plots to die entirely.

I'm glad that you wanted to inquire about this, but in future I would if you could pm, email or IM a admin to ask. We will listen and explain or point you in the direction of who can explain that point of the board. Thanks.

TAW ADMIN