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Posted by heinzbeans (U14427390) on Saturday, 17th April 2010
Is permission needed from the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú to write a work of fiction set in Borsetshire?
This would be a report on the incidence of children with disabilities in Borsetshire. It is proposed that Borsetshire has the interesting mathematical property of its disability statistics being a linear mapping of one of the three counties on which it is based.
Ambridge comes under South Borsetshire District Council, what are the other adminstative divisions of Borsetshire and their principal settlements?
Hello, Heinzbeans. Welcome to the board.
You might want to try this in Discuss the Archers or Fantasy Archers. Notes and Queries is set aside for serious queries about the programme and its making, so you're unlikely to get a discussion going here.
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Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:31 GMT, in reply to Leaping Badger in message 2
It's not a discussion, Leaps, it's a question to the production team. I think it's in the right board.
But as Borsetshire clearly doesn't exist, I assumed it was a tongue-in-cheek question.
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Only problem I think you might have is if Borsetshire, Borchester etc are registered as trade names or trade marks or some such. As far as I know you can't copyright a name just because you have used it in a work of fiction so there's nothing to stop anyone writing fiction about anything. I'm no expert mind you.
But what's all this about writing a work of fiction set in Borsetshire. Why should we need that when we have the real thing six nights a week?
dont forget sundile house
Thanks for the advice, LB
Just to put in my tuppenny-worth, Heinzbeans, I think 'Barsetshire' of the Trollope novels has been used more than once, though of course its begetter is long out of copyright. Maybe use that instead? Or make up your own, as Jilly Cooper did with Rutshire in her bonkbuster' novels.
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