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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
You say "Strictly speaking *all* fanfic *is* copyright violation. Letter of the law and all that." That's not correct. Fanfic isn't a copyright violation of the original author permits fan fiction. Thus, not all fanfic is a copyright violation.
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And it most certainly isn't if the work is in the public domain to begin with. There's a lot of fanfic based on PD source material, from the Bible to Shakespeare to Jane Austen to any mythology you can think of. (Go look at the
Yuletide collections on AO3 if you don't believe me.)