[ SECRET POST #2105 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2105 ⌋

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

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Comments

[elialshadowpine]

Do you mean authors reading fanfic of their own work? Because that's not what the OP is talking about. Most authors won't read fanfic of their own work specifically because of legal reasons.

And, uh, if you do mean in general, you cannot copyright an idea. You can't even copyright a specific mix of character and plot elements and themes. There is an author that went by the name of Sunny that ripped off major elements, catch-phrases, tropes, plot details, and themes from Anne Bishop's Black Jewels books and Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry books. She even admitted that she did this and thanked them for their ideas in her acknowledgements, which just had my jaw dropping, but she got several books published and they were reasonably popular until she stopped writing.

Ethics are a completely different matter, but legality? There isn't a lot of protection unless you're lifting the actual wording. Published fiction has the advantage that you could sue, yes -- but pretty much any case that dealt with idea theft has lost, even ones where it was very clear the author intentionally stole.