[ SECRET POST #2035 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2035 ⌋

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

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Comments

[deadtree]

partly, don't you think, due to the culture built up around fanfic that says asking for money (unless it's for a charity event) is a big no-no

[(Anonymous)]

(AYRT) Well maybe so, but then it becomes a vicious circle where the taboo is never challenged or changed.

I don't see how selling fanart is any more moral than selling fanfic (it's certainly no more legal), and yet people still offer fanart commissions.

[nynaeve_sedai]

I think in general there's a clearer delineation between fanart and fanfic. Someone selling fanart is probably less likely to get prosecuted, but if I started charging for my fanfic? You'd better believe I'd be getting cease and desist notices left and right if that got out.

Wish it were different. I would love to put money in some of the pockets of my favorite fic authors who write as well as any published author (maybe even better) - if for no other reason than to get them to write more because the novels in our fandom are crap IMO :P

[truxillogical]

Fanart exists in a legal gray area for a lot of companies. Marvel and DC in particular are absolutely aware that it exists, but they generally don't try to stop it, because: A) The Artist Alley is a big deal at most cons, has been for decades. Fans love it, and all evidence to the contrary aside, The Big Two really do avoid actively pissing a whole hoard of their fans off. B) Fanartists often "grow up" to work for the companies in question. Not all the time, but seeing as how neither company has a department that specifically grooms promising new talent for future work anymore, watching the fanartists online and at cons are an easy way for them to see who's up and coming.

Fanfiction doesn't work like that. Primarily because writing fanfiction and writing either professional prose or comicbook scripts are wholly different animals. That's not knocking fanfic--it's just a completely different medium, really. I've read fantastic pieces that blew my mind, had wonderful depth of character, etc. But that doesn't mean it's the same thing. 99% of the time, writing fanfiction might improve some technical aspects of your writing, but it won't actually teach you the craft as it applies to scripting a comicbook.

There's also the bit where a fanfic is a story, and while Marvel and DC (and other companies) live or die by their characters, they trade in stories. They won't step in when it's for free, because sheesh, who needs that legal hassle, but when you start making money off of their intellectual property as a story...it becomes a little more gray. It's why the guy who draws Little League can sell pins of his baby Justice League characters, but he can't put together a trade of the strips and sell that.

More's the pity. I'd love to see a printed collection of Batman And Sons.

[(Anonymous)]

Really interesting to read all this, thankyou.