Hua plots a new Iron Man adventure and carefully and skillfully imitates the art of Marvel Comics to create an authentic-looking Iron Man graphic novel. Hua is not affiliated with the owners of the copyright to Iron Man. Can Hua pub-lish the novel as his own work without infringing on the owners' copyright?
?Probably not. When the form or expres-sion of an idea is copied, an infringement of copyright occurs. The repro-duction can constitute infringement even if it is not be exactly the same as the original or does not repro-duce the original in its entirety.
The idea of a superhero crime fighter attired in an iron suit is not copyrightable, but the particular way in which an idea is expressed (in this case, in the character of Iron Man) is copy-rightable and may not be freely used by others.
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