[ SECRET POST #2651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2651 ⌋

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

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Comments

[blueonblue]

Licensed novels aren't the same as setting up shop on AO3. And in the early days of Sherlock Holmes fandom, amateur publication was more like the zines that came later, the money was needed to cover the costs, not to make a profit. William Baring-Gould spent more money writing about Sherlock Holmes than he made.

If you're so eager to make money from fanfic, there's nothing stopping you from writing Star Wars novels and sending query letters to the publishers.

[(Anonymous)]

Most of the Sherlock Holmes and Jane Austen novels on the market aren't licensed, though. The only SH works that are "official" in the sense that they were endorsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's estate was Anthony Horowitz' House of Silk. The rest of them were all written by people just like the writers on AO3, but who managed to get their work published.

The Sherlock Holmes fandom is not only NOT in decline, it's bigger than ever with two successful TV series and a movie franchise. Jane Austen isn't doing too badly either, there's been fairly regular film/miniseries adaptations for the last two decades and tons of book sequels, spin-offs and parodies. No acceleration in fandom decline for either of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Those are also in the public domain.

[(Anonymous)]

In deed. The creators are very dead, unable to create more themselves. I guess that's implied with public domain.

[(Anonymous)]

No, a creator may be dead but their work may not be in public domain yet. It depends on their country and its copyright laws.

[(Anonymous)]

How is that relevant in this particular discussion? This isn't about legality, it's about whether or not publishing fanfiction "damages the community aspect of fandom and accelerates a fandom's decline."

Clearly, in the case of Sherlock Holmes and Jane Austen, it hasn't. The fact that they're in the public domain only proves that they're old fandoms who've somehow managed to survive decades and decades of fanworks and their communities are larger than ever.