[ SECRET POST #2623 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2623 ⌋

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

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[forgottenjester]

There are authors who sell fic in fandom.

...oh my.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, not cool, guys.

[(Anonymous)]

why is it different from selling fanart?

[forgottenjester]

Normally you don't offer the art for free first and then make people pay for it. You have your free work and your pay work. You keep 'em separate.

[(Anonymous)]

I could see commissioned fanfic working, just like commissioned fanart is.

But I guess there really isn't a fanfic equivalent for what prints and buttons are.

[forgottenjester]

Yup. I don't think I'd mind someone doing commissioned fanfic* but then I also would worry because they are making money. They could run into trouble with copyright laws if their canon isn't in public domain. Honestly, our laws haven't really caught up with online fic.

*I doubt anyone would pay for it though.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I think it's a question of the potential financial impact of the copyright infringement of using the characters and setting.

No one's going to replace, say, watching a TV show with looking at fanart of the show. But there's a possibility that someone might replace watching the show with reading the fic, potentially costing the original creators money. So if people start charging more often, the copyright holders might come down harder.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, in one of my fandoms, the original work is in the public domain, so it's common for the moment someone's stories get popular, they yank all their fanfic from the free sites to publish for money. They may or may not rub salt in the wound by putting a few chapters back up on the fanfic sites as a "teaser", then the link to their (9 times out of 10 vanity-) published book is in their profile.

/just a little bitter

[forgottenjester]

Ugh, seriously?

[(Anonymous)]

This is constant in the Pride and Prejudice fanfiction world.

[forgottenjester]

That's depressing.