[ SECRET POST #6780 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6780 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

There are plenty of fics on AO3 that were inspired by other writers' fics, there's even a box you can check when posting 'This work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by another work' that lets you link that fic. And there are more than a few unofficial sequels to fics written by fic writers other than the original, so I guess it's something some authors might be worried about.

I have come up against some variation of fic authors forbidding others from basing fics on their work (or the prompts their work was based on) several times over the years, but there have been a couple of different instances that really stuck with me, the first was when I was a new fic writer years ago and the last I tripped over just recently. I was stunned by it back then and I find it bewildering that some people feel that way now, thus this secret.

Re: OP

[bookish_dragon]

Wait, we can claim ownership of prompts now? Man, I've been out of the fanfic-business too long.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I mean certainly there are those options, and drawing inspiration from other fic has been around longer than AO3 itself. But in my experience, anyone who actually does substantially draw from another fic asks for permission first. However, there is no such thing as an original idea in fanfic so it would have to be pretty damn obvious to me before I started accusing someone of "stealing" from me without crediting. Overall, it just seems excessively cocky for someone to think their writing is so damn good that they have to preemptively ban people from copying it.

Not to mention, declaring "ownership" over fanfic seems like a slippery slope and very gray area so...

(Don't even get me started on forbidding other writers from using the same prompt.)