Mrs. Lackey has had a fanfiction writer *sue* her for using a story idea of
theirs. (Not that it mattered much...)

You're mixing up two writers.  It was Marian Zimmer Bradley who was sued; it's
because of that suit that Lackey has her policy.

-- Bob

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Bob Schroeck             http://www.eclipse.net/~rms             rms@eclipse.net 
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I am not a student of human nature.  I am a professor of a far wider academy of
which human nature is only a part.
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