<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 30, 2017 8:41 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_523503728162999738WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hear that Universities?  No cave-person parties, none!</p></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">Can we appropriate themes from fiction? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know cosplay is growing but at the same time franchises worry about fan fiction diluting the brand.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Victorian-era steampunk parties. No IP infringement, plenty of opportunity for creative mischief, nobody has their culture appropriated.  Perhaps also; alternate future as predicted in the 1950's - do refrain from any "World of Tomorrow" references unless you want reanimated cyborg Walt Disney attacking you with lawyers. :)</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_523503728162999738WordSection1"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>