Well son of a *****. I sent an email to John Flanagan two months back and just got his reply last week. Here's what he said.
Headranger 说:
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 14:24:43 +1000, Headranger <
[email protected]> wrote:
Dustin,
I think you need to be very careful with this project as it seems you are infringing on my copyright. With that in mind, I can hardly advise you on how to go ahead with it.
John Flanagan
I respect his right to protect his work but I'm hoping that was a mostly automated response. Just incase I replied with an email requesting he confirm that he is viewing my derivative work as copyright infringement and would like me to stop.
This might be the end of this leg of the project, but I'm not going stop developing the mod I've envisioned. I'll simply cut out any reference to Ranger's Apprentice, Araluen, etc and continue on. His copyright doesn't extend beyond his works and their derivatives so currently everything but the map, the places and the names of characters can still be used. If he does confirm that my project offends him I'll move on. No big deal.
I really hope you all will stay along if it does go that way as your support if very inspiring. If it doesn't, I'm sorry for the scare.