Comment by StopDisinfo910
1 month ago
Have you noticed how the abundance of fan fictions have completely killed famous book series? Me neither.
1 month ago
Have you noticed how the abundance of fan fictions have completely killed famous book series? Me neither.
No, but I think it might happen if copyright lapsed in 14 years.
Presumably people would consider a Song of Ice and Fire sequel by GRRM to be "official" and everything else "fanfiction", even if the fanfiction manages to appear in bookstores
But it would only lapse after 28, assuming the author is still interested in pursuing it. 28 years is plenty, IMO.
*28 years, unless you were not invested enough in your work to bother renewing it.
What fan fiction?
Just in case you're actually unaware, the Organization for Transformative Works https://archiveofourown.org/ Archive Of Our Own (typically shortened to AO3) is where a tremendous amount of such fiction is archived.
So where can a mainstream consumer purchase or borrow a paperback edition of those stories?
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This is not an endorsement of the work, but there's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I hear 50 Shades of Gray is another fanfic that went mainstream.
A book nerd could come up with a much longer list, but I know there's a ton more illegal unlicensed! Harry Potter fan fic.
50 Shades is decidedly not a fanfic for the exact reason that it couldn't be sold as one.
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exactly.
Because copyright lasts longer than 14 years.
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