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⌈ Secret Post #2651 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The amount of people who are angry that they can't sell their fanfics in this thread is kind of amusing.

[(Anonymous)]

MTE. It makes me shake my head.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't want to sell my fanfics. I'm annoyed at the double standard.

Two different things.

[(Anonymous)]

The mediums are entirely different. And for the people who think it's no different than selling a book, well yeah. You aren't supposed to be creating a story with other people's copyrighted characters and then profiting off of them. That's what copyrights are for.

[(Anonymous)]

Once again, no. Copyright was to keep people from copying books word for word and selling them at less than the originals sold for. It made it where the people who put the money up front couldn't make their money back, and it discourage creativity as no one wanted to try and publish books just to lose money.

Fan fiction and Fan art are not copying the original source material and releasing them for less money. They are both creating new things that are separate from the original material, which is still in tact and still being sold by the one company that owns it.

[(Anonymous)]

Then you're kind of missing the point. I have no plans to sell fanfic. I could try it now... who'd stop me? Like fanart, it'd probably be under the radar enough that the copyright holder wouldn't even find out.

It's the irrational double standard that people apply and all the really weak arguments in the thread for why selling fanart is okay and different that bugs me, because it doesn't make sense. People get sidetracked by talk of quality, marketability, how expensive the tools are... That's all irrelevant. The point the OP is talking about is the legality of selling fanworks. The legality is the same for both art AND fic, which is to say, muddy at best and probably not kosher but feasible just the same because usually nobody will sue you.

It's the same. Yet many people who think one is okay considers the other off-limits for some nebulous reason.

[(Anonymous)]

The legality isn't a double-standard. It is more dangerous for companies to allow fic than to allow art to be sold without being licensed material. Shades of the whole Mercedes Lackey debacle. Both are iffy legally, or maybe downright illegal, but TPTB generally crack down on fic because there's more of a risk to them with a story than with a picture.

From a selling point, it's harder for people to know what they're getting. Clearly folks would, and do, buy fic. I've got no beef against that. But pretending it's so very UNFAIR is just looking at it from a fandom point of view, and it seems silly.

[(Anonymous)]

This is not true.

There is not risk to them at all, and it has been proven otherwise over and over again.

[(Anonymous)]

How could fics for sale be any more dangerous than all the fics there are for free???

I mean... you only read fics after you've purchased and consumed the source material, generally...

(The Mercedes Lackey think is bunk.)

[(Anonymous)]

What about all us folks here who want to buy fanfics, not sell them?