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Originally Posted by fjtorres
..and the authors can change their minds at any point in time.
(Rowling did just that that, remember?)
Revocable "permissions" aren't permissions, they're shrugs.
All that the authors are saying is they won't pursue the violators unless they are *really* annoyed. The violation remains. And so does the liability.
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And if the authors are
enthusiastically telling their fans to write? If they're going as far as asking for recs? If they're holding competitions for fanfic? If they put links to fanfic sites on their official sites and/or tell people to read something?
Is all that really just a "shrug"? Of course if someone oversteps the boundaries and for example tries to sell their stories (without changing the names - because often enough, in a fanfic story, it's just the names that are infringing; the stories are not plagiarising the original, they're brand new stories), then things may change, but when the fans do what the creator encourages them to do...?
I mean, if an author holds a fanfic competition, with prizes, do you really think this means the entrants to the competition will have to fear the creator will then turn around and sue them for entering that competition? Or that the creator is merely tolerating them, humouring them, while secretly cursing those evil fans who .. erm, are keeping the interest in the creator's universe and series going while the creator is busy writing the next book, which may take a year, during which the readers might otherwise lose interest and drift away?