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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Actually Fan Fiction seems to get away with it all the time, so long as they don't profit from the stuff they write it all seems legal. Copyright law is complicated when you start talking about fair use.
Dale
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We've discussed this before in considerable depth. Fan fiction is unquestionable NOT legal (unless the copyright holder gives their permission for their characters to be used - as LucasFilms do for "Star Wars" fan fiction). Fan fiction is
tolerated - probably on the grounds that the last thing any author wants to to is piss off their fans, and they probably see the fact that people "care" about their characters so much that they want to read other stories about them as a complement. However, "tolerated" doesn't equate to "legal" and copyright holders do from time to time have "purges" on fan fiction and other unlicenced material - I remember Paramount having one for unauthorised "Star Trek" material on the web about 5 years ago.
It's because fan fiction is not legal that we don't permit it to be posted to this site.