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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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So be careful: write up an agreement with the fans. You haven't been too careful if you alienate the source of your revenue stream and take a black eye in the press.
What steams and befuddles me about corporate oversight of creative works is not that they act in their own interests, but that they judge those interests so poorly.