Comments on: “Is fan fiction legal? Fans are understandably nervous.”

By: Xmas

Xmas — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:45:34 +0000

A better question: Is Potter/Snape slash-fic legal?

I hope to God it isn’t.

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:52:05 +0000

There is a group promoting fan works. It was started by Naomi Novick of Temeraire fame, and it's know as the Organization for Transformative Works. Then you have the "1632" community at Baen's Bar, which is essentially a fan works community approved by the series creator Eric Flint. (It helps to remember that Eric is a practicing Leninist with an appreciation for a healthy profit line. Going broke makes it hard to save Humanity.)

By: Bumper

Bumper — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:06:03 +0000

Hate to be contrary, but if I took the time and trouble to invent a character and had the good luck to get it published, I would be more than put out to discover another writer had usurped my work and was using same said character in a work of their own. This certainly would fly in the visual arts, even fair use and parody have their limits. I always thought copyright was supposed to be about time not content.

For the record, there really in a website http://www.tush.net. Don’t go there, nothing but a parking site for adult links. I just knew it was going to about ZZ Top’s song of the same name. I was so disappointed.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:20:05 +0000