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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd like to ask you a very simple question: what is so difficult about asking for permission in advance from the rights holder? That would solve all the problems of legality. Just write and ask "may I have your permission to publish a not-for-profit work using your characters". If they say "yes", everybody's happy; if they say "no", you don't do it.
Don't you think that would be an awful lot better than (at best) skirting around very grey areas of copyright law as most fan fiction authors appear to be doing?
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Why is it so hard for you to understand that most authors and studios simply DO NOT CARE and some even embrace it? Fanfic does not take money from an author and does no harm. You seem determined to ignore that and insist that fanfiction is some kind of horrible crime. It's not. Copyright infringement is almost never an issue unless someone is trying to profit off of their work.