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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
I separated that last one because it talks about "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James. I'm sorry, my personal opinion is that James should not have been able to profit off the work. Why, considering the names are changed and it's in a different setting? Because the fact that it was fanfiction was used as a marketing ploy.
If no one had ever known that it was fanfic, I'm sure the story would have flopped. But James already had a big fanfic following, then was like "Look, it's becoming a real book. Tell everyone to buy it!" And things blew up from there.
I could grab up all my fanfic, change some names and some settings, and probably make a good go of it, but that's just crossing the line to me. Does anyone else think that there's going to be big trouble in the future, or am I just paranoid?  |
I haven't read it and it doesn't sound like something that I would want to read, but from what I understand the only thing that it had in common with Twilight were the names. Now it has nothing in common, so why is it fanfic?
And I don't understand why you complain about the following. It proves that people are still willing to pay for what they like even if they already had it for free.