[FFML] Continue dead or abandon fics by other authors.

[Bryan Cupp]

> > Do either of you know any fanfiction authors who have asked the
> >  original owner if they could use their characters, settings and
> >  what not?
> 
> <raises hand>  Um.  I have explicit permission from Mercedes Lackey
> to write "Drunkard's Walk I", which is set in Valdemar.  When I get
> around to it.
> 
> But that's not really relevant.

But it is totally cool however.  Even if it is outside the norm.


> 
> > Are you saying that a fanfiction author is any different from a
> >  published author, or that the fanfiction author should be given
> > special consideration because they are easier to contact, or have+
> > less fans?
> 
> If he is, he's wrong.  Fanfiction is as protected by copyright as the
> works we base it on.  Even if his ridiculous assertion that it's a
> creation of the media corporations is true, it *still* protects the
> fan writer.
> 
> However... for the very reasons we can write what we do, he has nothing
> really barring him from swooping in and adding his own ending to an
> unfinished story.  Nothing in the *law* at least, as long as he didn't
> claim the entire thing outright.  Respect for the original writer would
> kind of require, I think, at least a good-faith effort to find them to
> ask.  There's complying with the law, and then there's not being a jerk.
> 
> -- Bob

Yes, this is basically the point I'm trying to get across. 
 		 	   		  
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