[ SECRET POST #5052 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5052 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #723.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

(cozy werewolf anon)

You had me in the first half. Then you put in the last line.

Look, as an indie author and a fan author, these two things are NOT the same. It is much more difficult to write original fiction because it requires more/different parts of your brain than writing fan fiction. Just because someone can write 10K words of fan fiction a week doesn't mean that will translate to original fiction or any type of job setting.

I can write 10K words a day sometimes. (I worked hard to get to that point.) My brain is exhausted afterwards. It's WORK. And that's usually if I have a solid plan. (I am a plotter.) And it is NOTHING like working an 8 hour shift of answering phones/billing clients/doing accounting/costing parts/other office tasks. Zilch. You can't equate them.

Copyright/Trademarks is a messy issue. Most authors/creators don't bother to take the time to understand it properly even thought it's part of their job. Lawyers don't always get it.

Trad Authors tend to look for direct plagiarism. (We copy-pasted your book and changed the names.) For fan art, it's not copyright big corporations are often worried about it's Trademarks and "Can this be mistaken for official content." This can be an issue to with books.

If you wrote a book using the characters/ideas in my series and mimicked my covers and put it online, I'd be going after you because it could be MISTAKEN for something written by me. So, not only are you stealing my ideas and infringing on my 'trademark' so to speak, you're trying to take my customers. Theft is theft. (Don't bother. I don't have many.)

Look, come up with your own characters and ideas for fairy tale retellings or biker werewolf novels. I can't copyright those basic ideas. My fully formed books though with named characters and settings and the way the covers look are copyrighted!

When authors/corps go after copyright/trademark infringement, it's to protect themselves and their ability to make a living. And in the case of trademarks, their ability to KEEP ownership of that trademark. They don't have a choice. It's either file claim or LOSE the trademark.

This is why Cassie Claire and Sherilyn Kenyon got into it. And why Twilight and 50 Shades DIDN'T.

This isn't really about the secret, but hey the more you know. I kind of feel like the last line was a troll addition to spark controversy. Well done, I guess.