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Making money from copyright licensing is a complex issue.

For an in depth understanding of Character Licensing there is a classic book called.
The Art of Character Licensing by Richard Wincor.

The-Art-of-Character-Licensing

I've given advice to a few people on the strategy of developing characters by way of a "character manual".

From such a manual it allows "derivative works" to be made, and that is how you can protect characters though many different works such as a TV series or a whole franchise rather than having just one story to develop a character within. You can publish your work on social media and then include a section in your manual about published works.

see here,
https://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/mqbf6z/question_about_using_copyrighted_characters_and/guhuvh0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

and here,

https://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/mm379n/characters/gtozatv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Also see this book by Richard Wincor called The Art of Character Licensing

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Character-Licensing-Richard-Wincor/dp/1888075570

This gives some detailed overview and some case law of the complexities involved.

The best way is to make a character manual. That serves as the larger literary work which you can get registered. Then any future shows will be regarded as derivatives based on the character manual. Any published works can also be included as part of the manual as well as style sheets for logo's and trademark if required.

I have mentioned this a few times before,

https://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/mqbf6z/question_about_using_copyrighted_characters_and/guhuvh0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/mm379n/characters/gtozatv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

There is actually a classic book by Richard Wincor called The Art of Character Licensing

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Character-Licensing-Richard-Wincor/dp/1888075570

This gives some detailed overview and some case law of the complexities involved.

Yep.

There is actually a classic book by Richard Wincor called The Art of Character Licensing

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Character-Licensing-Richard-Wincor/dp/1888075570

This gives some detailed overview and some case law of the complexities involved.

>There is actually a classic book by Richard Wincor called The Art of Character Licensing
>
>https://www.amazon.com/Art-Character-Licensing-Richard-Wincor/dp/1888075570
>
>This gives some detailed overview and some case law of the complexities involved.

It's a complex process.

For instance, characters require development to acquire copyright.

As an example, Walter White from Breaking Bad doesn't complete his metamorphism into Heisenberg in the first episode. Thus, if only the first episode of a show existed there may not be enough character delineation to provide the character any protection. They may just be stock characters.

Therefore, you may need a complete narrative outline including the whole transformation that character/s go though or else, regardless of registering your characters, a judge might just regard them as undefined stock characters that can't be protected.

So, it's a complex process. It has to be more than just drawing a character for instance. You have to consider their flaws, goals, desires, obstacles, friends, enemies, catch phrases, environments, special powers, even vehicles and accessories. The list is not exhaustive.

As an exercise, consider how you would write a Wikipeadia page for Spider-man for instance. You have to start with Peter Parker and expand from there to everything that goes into to making him who he becomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man