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[QUOTE=Alanon;3904297A thing to note, however, is that the premise of indirect profits cuts both ways. Fan fiction might make the original work more popular, and as a consequence, more profitable, yet no one seems particularly interested in having a discussion on compensating those folks? No one has put forth any justification for having hordes of people that popularise original work for free, that's somehow become a given.
It's an interesting paradox - great fan fiction authors might do the work of entire PR teams, completely free of charge, and still be constantly at risk from litigation, and suffer the snobbery of internet trolls telling them their work is not original and is somehow near-worthless. I suppose if impartiality is too much to ask from our culture, we might at least hold some hope for impartiality in resentment.[/QUOTE]
The situations are not the same.
The fanfic authors chose to be in this situation, the original authors didn't.
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