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I have recently come across cases of people selling their Star Trek or Stargate fanfic as self-published novels. This does not sit well with me and is against what I personally believe to be ethical. It would be interesting to see if anything is done about that; big studios would certainly have the means for a proper lawsuit. I don't think there's been a single case of even for-profit fanfic going to court, though (the Harry Potter Lexicon is a different case, not having anything to do with fanfic but being pretty much entirely a compendium of direct quotes and material from the Harry Potter books).
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I haven't seen that. I have seen Stargate novels on Smashwords, but they had a disclaimer "An original publication of Fandemonium Ltd, produced under license from MGM Consumer Products", so they aren't fanfic. There are books like "The Nitpicker's Guide to Star Trek", which don't need permission.