Valve: Steam’d Penguins

Posted Jul 19, 2012 7:25 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Valve: Steam’d Penguins by iabervon
Parent article: Valve: Steam’d Penguins

you're required to write something new from scratch (perhaps relying on the reader's knowledge of the original text, but never including that text).

Note that if you overtly rely on the other text, e.g. by having your characters or plot be based on that of the other, you will still be creating a derivative work of the first. In which case the copyright holder of the first work will have a copyright over the derived work.