Law Asked by yolo on August 28, 2021
For a little bit of background since I don’t expect you to watch the show:
The necessary feature of the show is that lucifer leaves hell and then runs a nightclub
The personalities and features of the majority of the characters are different to the source material; they only share a name.
So if the characters did not share their comic book name (besides Lucifer himself since that’s not copyrighted), would the show avoid a copyright strike from DC?
The Lucifer TV show is an adaptation of the comic series of the same name, but with a lot of creative license applied to make the show more viewer friendly/dramatic. In that case, they need the copyright license from DC because, even though there are a lot of differences, there are also a lot of similarities in the story, making it at least a derivative work.
Lucifer: Similarities and Differences describes how the show and the comic are similar and where they diverge. You can see that the underlying concept/story is at the very least the same as the comic.
Correct answer by Ron Beyer on August 28, 2021
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