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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Not really.
STAR TREK novels come from dozens of different writers and some have been released as free promos. (To say nothing of being pirated all over.)
With the wide variety of casts, eras, settings and the reboot, to say nothing of the convouted canon, it is one of the easiest mythologies to slip in a fake.
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No reasonable person could confuse a Star Trek fanfic with a official Star Trek book. They simply don't look like the same. Fanfic are just text files, without covers. An official Star Trek book would be in a format like mobi or e-pub, and would have a cover.
That and the disclaimers usually found in fanfic would alert the reader. Plus, getting it from a fan fiction website would alert the reader that it is fanfic.
Yes, you could create a book that looked like an official Star Trek book, but that is a red herring. Such a book wouldn't be a fanfic.
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Both are popular with younger readers who will grab everything they can find and would find the fanfic a substitute for the commercial product.
Don't forget the second part: "substitute for".
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Fanfic doesn't substitute for the original, it supplements it. The person might exist who reads fanfic instead of the original material, but that's like finding a hen with teeth.
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The Brito counterfeits, for one, weren't duplicates of his actual designs. They were actually originals done in his own personal style so even if not sold as "Brito originals" they they were sold as Brito-style and were found to devalue his brand.
Just because somebody doesn't intend to confuse doesn't mean it can't happen.
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One difference was that these were sold, while fanfic isn't. And people do get knock off handbags as substitutes for the original designs, but they don't get fanfic as substitutes for the original material. And it is telling that no one seems to be able to come up with court cases that actually have anything to do with fanfic.