On another topic, I was once on an RPG forum for a particular fanbase, wherein each of the canon characters was 'owned' by a different member, on a [i]site-wide basis[/i]. If you wanted to use that character in your game, you [i]had to ask its owner for permission[/i]. They could (and would) [i]refuse[/i], and the site entitled them to do so on whatever basis they pleased.

Suffice to say, my stay in that ego-serving, pointlessly bureaucratic system was a short and fruitless one.