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I'll give it a shot, ... so I was told, once you get your comic made, sent out and rejected, it's floating out there when and if someone else made something similar, you can take your shot and sue him or the production company, in case: the Queen of Sword tv series (It's a female Zorro type show), there was a script with similar ideas floating around before the show aired. Similar to the DaVinci code, but the court ruled the ideas of Jesus having heirs were too conventional and not original.
If you made a book, comic and sold and printed something like 2000 copies, it's copyrighted. It's your material. If it's about a journey to Mars, that's not original and no one can sue you for copyright infringement because it's not original, if it is unique, like the Matrix, than it's yours and difficult to prove (Burton claims he never read a Kevin Smith comic about an 'Ape' Lincoln in the ending of his Planet of the Apes), or like the Terminator, Harlan Ellison found proof that Cameron got the idea for Terminator from an old Outer Limits episode that Ellison penned.
After 75 years, materials become public domain and anyone can write or adapt that material to his work, such as Vampires, Frankenstein Monster, Werewolves, ... just recently, Rice Borough's John Carter, Warlord of Mars became public domain. (Understand, it can't be Marvel's or DC's version). Superman, Mickey Mouse and even Tarzan are reaching that point, but their publisher or family continues to renew their copyright. So, Conan, FuManchu, Peanuts, are still owned by someone else, but those guys in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are free for us to redefine, remake and redesign to our own ideas and views.
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