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Originally Posted by HarryT
With respect, it's not that simple.
If you "turn a blind eye" to "derivative works" from fans, that gives other less scrupulous people a precident to claim that you have previously permitted such works, hence their derivative work, sold for profit, is "OK". Copyright holders have to be very careful about such things.
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Harry, the estate is still a vulture without brains.
Companies like Coca-Cola set up sites in Second World for advertising, spending good money to do it. Here the estate has fans doing it for free, providing advertising for nothing, and the estate goes ballistic. Had the estate possesed at least one brain, they would have granted an after the fact license, reserving the right to request changes if (unlikely) the fans put in things that didn't fit the spirit of the books.
In granting the license, they would then have maintained their legal grounds for any other (for profit) deriviative....