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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's a "cheap shot", IMHO, taking cynical advantage of the "fame" earned by the hard work of the author of the original.
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Or it's creating a new work based on known and established literary characters and tropes.
Nobody complains that new Shakespeare variants are "cheap shots" riding on someone else's fame. Nor that the Sherlock Holmes tv series & movies are trying to avoid the effort of creating their own original characters.
It can be argued that the original author has the right to prevent such derivatives, but that's not the same as arguing that derivatives are inherently less artistic than entirely new creations. (If those exist, that is. Harry Potter doesn't directly acknowledge Gandalf as part of the inspiration for Dumbledore, but the connection is obvious.)