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I do think it's quite interesting that even the authors who are rabidly, furiously anti-fanfic, comparing people writing fanfic to raping their children or engaging in white slavery and being, basically, the scum of the earth, and declaring that they know with absolute certainty that the people writing fic are breaking the law, haven't as much as tried to actually take anyone to court for writing fanfic.
If they're so certain about it, and feel so incredibly strongly about it as to go on furious rants about it (and risk alienating a big part of their potential fanbase, not just the fic writers but also everyone who has ever read fanfic), I do have to wonder why they stick to just ranting about it and not try to do anything about it.
I don't think Diana Gabaldon for example has even contacted fanfiction.net to ask them to not allow Outlander fanfic (fanfiction.net, the biggest general fanfiction archive there is, does take authors' requests into consideration when contacted directly and doesn't allow fic for certain authors), never mind having a lawyer send out C&D letters - and definitely not taking anyone to court over fanfic, in spite of her outbursts a year or two ago (and she's since even deleted the relevant blog posts, so anyone who missed all the fun has to rely on second-hand accounts of it).
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