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Originally Posted by HarryT
I accept what you say, but the fundamental question I'd ask is why you feel a need to use someone else's "property" in your fiction at all? If you want to write, then why not write original fiction, rather than setting it in somebody else's "back yard"?
No disrespect, but you say that you aren't claiming any rights over anyone else's intellectual property, but I'm sure you'd accept that you are, nonetheless, making use of that property without their permission. That seems ethically wrong to me, regardless of any legal aspects of the issue.
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Harry, I don't think you get the point of fan fiction based on what you wrote here. Fan works have been around for thousands of years mostly in songs and live storytelling as creators take one person's work and build off it and spawn new ideas and stories. The King Arthur legends are a prime example of fan fiction.
The big difference is when the first bards started stories about King Arthur they didn't have a corporation sitting in LA waiting to sue their asses for copyright/trademark infringement.