[ SECRET POST #4695 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4695 ⌋

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Comments

I can't imagine Meyer would have gotten anywhere with a lawsuit.

[(Anonymous)]

While it had started out as Twilight fiction, it was already really far away from Twilight in terms of premise and setting. Knowing only the bare bones of the story, I'm betting it was somewhat OOC, too. Once it was reworked and characters were renamed, which James did before publishing, it would most likely no longer be considered even an unauthorized derivative work as any major copyrightable elements would have been gone.

Re: I can't imagine Meyer would have gotten anywhere with a lawsuit.

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is the correct answer.

Re: I can't imagine Meyer would have gotten anywhere with a lawsuit.

[(Anonymous)]

+2

Re: I can't imagine Meyer would have gotten anywhere with a lawsuit.

[(Anonymous)]

I loathe FSoG and EL James sounds small-minded and petty as fuck, but regardless of that, I think you're 100% right about this. The idea that FSoG has enough similarities to Twilight to infringe on copyright is more than a little bit of a stretch. The two properties are so different that if it weren't a known fact the two are linked, I highly doubt FSoG would even be considered to have more than the vaguest coincidental similarities to Twilight.

Re: I can't imagine Meyer would have gotten anywhere with a lawsuit.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read some AUs (in other fandoms) that were so different from the source, you'd only have to change the names. I totally agree that there was probably no legal basis for a lawsuit.

Re: I can't imagine Meyer would have gotten anywhere with a lawsuit.

[rosehiptea]

I didn't read any of this stuff either but I agree. They don't even seem to resemble each other at this point.

Re: I can't imagine Meyer would have gotten anywhere with a lawsuit.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. Many (certainly not all) people know it started out as a Twilight fanfic but that doesn't mean there's anything there that's really obviously a direct rip-off. There are far worse cases of derivative or even copycat works out there.

I can't believe I was just forced to "defend" Twilight and 50 Shades.