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Originally Posted by ApK
If it's true that some fanfic writers are making money off of copyrighted material without permission, then isn't this precisely the sort of thing the community is constantly saying the big companies should do?
Rather than suing for copyright infringement, which seem like it would be a perfectly legitimate course of action, they are recognizing changes and embracing new opportunities.
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Fan *artists* seem to make money, from commissions. I'm not sure I've heard of any fan *fic* authors making money off their work, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Although, I would make a case that the fanfic movement and its sacred cows are analogous to taking a Rembrandt (or even a Bob Ross, for those of us who watch PBS) and sticking a homemade decal of a character onto it. Their movement is intentionally stifling their creativity.
Not to mention the Big Lie of Fanworks- that you *have* to make a name for yourself doing years or even decades of fanworks before you can strike out on your own and create your own worlds. That alone has probably trapped some really good artists.
So yeah, not really a fan of the Fanworks movement. Seems to combine the arrogance of Modernism with the strictures of Egyptian tomb paintings.