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Originally Posted by HarryT
The area in which we disagree, WritePR, is that of asking permission. I totally accept that fan fiction is harmless in the majority of cases, but it seems very wrong to me not to ask the permission of the right-holder. It's like, say, trespass. I'm probably not doing any harm if I walk across your land, but you probably wouldn't like me to do so without asking you for permission to do so in advance.
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As a Brit you should be familiar with the Ramblers Charity, one of whose goals is to reclaim public rights of way over land which may have been denied by the current owners. Should they ask for the owner's permission also? In many cases the land owners not only don't like the walking ramblers do, and call it trespass, but they've actively opposed it. And in many cases they've been overruled and the right of way granted.
Blind obedience to some perceived, and in many cases imagined, prohibitions is not the approach everyone takes to life.