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Elanel:
We've had this problem on my forums with Harry Potter fanfiction. I actually took legal advice and had to make some guarantees concerning how the fiction would be used and such. Pain in the neck, really. I'd not bother with it at all but telling an HP fan to stop writing fanfiction is like telling Mel Gibson to stick to non-alcoholic beer.

Qualapec:
fanfiction.net has a Dresden Files section.

I undestand the legal aspects that there are some blood-suckers out there that are going to jump all over the author just for money or just to mess with them, and there are some authors out there that are just picky about that kind of thing. Nora Roberts for example.

But let me get this straight. Jim can't even acknowledge it exists? No. I don't mean posting or leaving a review or anything. I mean like he has to pretend the fanfiction doesn't exist?

Okay, I'm sure that also didn't convey what I'm thinking.

So he can't acknowledge it's out there. Like he can't make a statement about how he feels about people writing in his universe because as far as he's concerned it can't exist otherwise he'll get sued?

Really...I'm not an airhead, just confused.

~She-Wolf

Shiloh:
How's this for a lousy analogy?

I've heard of giant squids.  People have told me that they're out there.  I however have never seen one in person (in squid?), so I can't truly know that they exist.

Never mind; that really was lousy.

The legality lies in the fact that fanfiction makes use of an author's intellectual property.  To use Jim's characters, settings, and so forth could therefore be seen as a sort of plagiarism.  If an author visits a fanfiction site and doesn't push to have references to his or work removed, the site's owner could say that the author has tacitly endorsed the site.

And as others have stated, suppose I write a story in which Harry does X.  Suppose Jim in a future novel has Harry do X, or an X-like thing.  I then get all irate and sue Jim for stealing my idea.  Jim's best argument against that is that he's never been to the site where I posted my story.

Qualapec:
Things like that are why I'm much more suited for medicine than law...

But yeah, I see the point. Why the heck to people have to be so fricken trigger happy when it comes to sueing somebody else? They know that by writing fanfiction it's barely legal as it is so why sue for something that wasn't their's to begin with?

Yeah, money. I know. Still bugs me :(

~She-Wolf

Tersa:
I know we can't do a fanfiction fanworks section, but would fanart section work?  I draw fanart and a few other people on the board do as well.  Would it be possible to have a place to post art and icons that people make?

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