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Originally Posted by HarryT
There was no insult intended, and I do apologise if it upset you. It was a genuine question.
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Was the following also posted with no insult intended? I don't even see anything here about fanfiction writers writing fanfiction for work where the rights holder is okay with / encourages fanfiction, or when there is no copyright infringement (either because the piece of fanfiction falls within fair use in the given jurisdiction or because the work is in public domain).
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because the fan fiction writer is a leech, a parasite, a blood-sucker, feeding from the creativity of someone else. If somebody wants to be an author, let them create their own worlds, not steal somebody else's.
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And yes, I do bring it up again, because, as a fanfiction writer, with many fanfiction writing friends, all of us writing (and sharing) fanfiction out of love for the original, not for profit or fame but to interact with the source material and other fans, to explore the character motivations and what-if scenarios in that universe, I considered this an insult.
(And I would also really like to know if you'd tell the same thing to screenwriters for TV shows, authors of TV show tie-in novels and the people writing and publishing, for money, new works based on Jane Austen's novels or Sherlock Holmes or new takes on fairytales or ... well, anything in the public domain - it may not be copyright infringement, but
all those people are "feeding from the creativity of someone else", with not a single one of them even pretending to create their own worlds.)