[ SECRET POST #3861 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3861 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Writers can be. But let's take a look at the list of writers who have denounced fanfic that we know about other than Robin Hobb. People like Anne Rice, Anne McCaffery, Mercedes Lackey, GRR Martin. (And there are others.) They share one thing in common, they are of the same generation where someone DID take one of them to court to sue them over a fanfic being too similar to one of their books. That's why "Due to legal reasons" most writers don't read fanfic of their own works. It's a legal bogeyman for them!

As a published author who has grown up reading and writing fanfiction, I'm not as protective of my characters. (That no one is reading because marketing is hard y'all.) I know that if my works got popular that I wouldn't be able to keep the fandom from writing slash of two of the male characters or two of the female characters because I wrote chaste kisses as part of the whole culture I've created. It amuses me. It doesn't upset me.

As a writer and a person who has read a myraid of AUs, I know that I can't even be remotely protective of the basic concept. I don't own my concept. (And the stories I've heard about other authors getting pissy if their agents accept anything remotely close to their concept to the agent's list.)

More and more authors are coming out of this pool of young people who have grown up with fanfic or have written fanfic. So, hopefully this attitude about the 'purity' of canon from authors versus fanon and headcanons will be reduced.

Personally, as an author, I don't have the time or energy to care if a 'fan' of mine wrote something with slash in it. I have to invest my energy into writing and promoting my works!

[(Anonymous)]

Who got sued? I mean I remember a thing where a fan got hired as a ghostwriter and then there was a kerfuffle when the contract fell apart in the payment negotiation stage, but I don't remember specifically anyone suing.

[(Anonymous)]

The most famous one I know about was this:
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley_Fanfiction_Controversy

I think it made everyone who watched it go down a little gun-shy about fanfic.

[meredith44]

The only thing I recall is the Marion Zimmer Bradley kerfluffle. I had thought she was sued, but the article says lawyers were involved on both sides but there was no formal suit.

[(Anonymous)]

They also have in common that they're all not terribly great writers.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're thinking of Marion Zimmer Bradley, she wasn't sued. Authors who cite that anecdote are reacting with extreme caution that probably isn't warranted, and you'll note that there are a LOT of writers in "that generation" who aren't as hardcore about fanfiction. It's because they feel pretty darn confident that the law will be on their side and it's not worth losing the goodwill of fans by lambasting them for writing fanfiction.