Most of this stuff isn't licensed, and yes its illegal, but its so small potatoes that the copyright owners don't even bother unless the person is making a substantial profit. Fair use is only determined by a court, but a lot of people who create this stuff like to use that as an excuse when the reality is that they…

This happens all the time at comic book conventions. Its not legal but the companies tend to turn a blind eye. Can they come after you? Yes. Will they? not likely. However you always run that risk. The more money you start making off of it the more likely they are to come after you for it. I would say your pretty safe…

Copyright law in the United States allows for very minor usage, and only under select circumstances (peer review, etc) Basically though you cannot make profit off another's work, and they get away with it only because the legal team has not gotten around to demanding a cease and desist yet.

have you seen the amount of mistakes made by native English users!? you did good.

Lizzy shook her head in disgust. "you would think it wouldn't be so boring" she complained to another archaeology student that wondered in range. It was day one, hour four of the lost book-store dig, Lizzy's face was now sore from frowning and the other students were avoiding her, equally bored as they were.

Art's pager buzzed. He rolled over in his hammock and checked the location of the call: Adventure Fiction, Stack 63, Level 200. He sighed. The calls from the Adventure Section had been coming in fast and frequent over the last few weeks, and it was only a matter of time before he caught a call.

In the movies, the…

In before dirty jokes :)

It's actually terrifying how that handful of sentences reads just like an abusive relationship.

Well, besides the people who ordered online and got it shipped early. They are the people who both payed for and received their consoles "first".

I just totally forgot EA is a publisher and not a developer, Tell Tale could still make an EA published Star Wars game!

Is this even a debate?

At least, it isn't another modern first person shooter, Crytek learned from their previous experiences, unlike most of the currently popular studios.

He went forward, into her past.

The invisible man bought a mirror.

jesus, they sure do crank out these lego games, don't they? everyone moans about COD's endless sequels, but i recon traveler's tales has eclipsed that franchise a couple times over by now

"Shlike" should pretty much cover it all.

And thus, Nintendo advertised the Wii U to more of its target audience than it ever could with TV ads.

The answer is simple. Color prints of the time faded rapidly. In the 1940's color motion picture film and prints were very common and relatively cheap. Single-strip Color 16mm was inexpensive enough that many families shot 16mm home movies. If your school or library has a magazine archive go back and look at LIFE and…

Mass Effect is more than a single story, but seems like the Asari are worth mentioning here.