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Re: This morning's crap idea.

From David Harmon <source@netcom.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: This morning's crap idea.
Date 2015-08-22 16:04 -0700
Organization I support http://www.answers.com/topic/boulder-pledge
References (1 earlier) <mr4m4l$m62$1@dont-email.me> <MPG.304003c4de07d9ef98991c@news.eternal-september.org> <ntH20v.w4F@kithrup.com> <ntHKxH.23F2@kithrup.com> <mra0od$rs2$1@dont-email.me>
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:27:00 -0400 in rec.arts.sf.written, "Sea Wasp
(Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote,
>On 8/22/15 9:46 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <ntH20v.w4F@kithrup.com>,
>> David Goldfarb <goldfarbdj@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The writer ultimately managed to sell a story to either Harlan Ellison
>>> or an HE expy.
>>
>> What's expy?
>
>	Short for "exported character", it's a character who is an obvious 
>duplicate of some other real person or copyrighted character, just with 
>a different name and enough tweaks to keep from being sued.

Wouldn't that be an "imported character"?


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This morning's crap idea. William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-19 12:57 -0400
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    Re: This morning's crap idea. djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-19 17:16 +0000
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        Re: This morning's crap idea. Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 04:35 +0000
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              Re: This morning's crap idea. ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2015-08-20 14:26 +0000
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                Re: This morning's crap idea. "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2015-08-22 10:27 -0400
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                Re: This morning's crap idea. Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 16:36 -0700
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                Re: This morning's crap idea. djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-23 00:47 +0000
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