Is fan fiction plagiarism?
Now I've seen a lot of people on yahoo answers bash people who write Fan fiction. But i was wondering if fan fiction isn't just people coming together and sharing how they would imagine that story would go. They are not being paid or exonerated or anything like that. All they are getting is good reviews or bad reviews, boring or fun. Most of the time the people who write fan fiction use the characters but twist the whole body of the story eg title, what it's about, the conflict and what ever you might find in a real story. So answer me this fan fictioners and fan fictioner haters is fan fiction plagiarism.
Why do people write fanfiction?
My very first fan fiction came to be, because at the time, there was a fringe group in the fandom who were writing about an obscure, and frowned upon (to put it lightly) pairing. We liked it because we had grown tired of the pairings everyone else was writing about. It was just more interesting, and in some ways, more plausible than the norm.At first, I had intended to write an epic hurt/comfort/tragedy/romance, but I ended up not being able to get all the pieces in place. So, I decided to write a one-shot (a term typically used for short, one-chaptered stories) instead. After publishing it at FanFiction, I was pretty content to just use my account for reading purposes. Years later I read that short story, and deleted it from my account, because…well, it was embarrassing, to be honest. I knew I could do better.Several years passed, and one day I was watching a commercial on TV which sparked a random idea. I wrote it, posted, and got an amazingly positive response. While I consider the writing to be inferior, I still get favorites on that story seven years later.A couple more years passed, and I started watching something I really loved. At first. Unfortunately, the writers decided to start killing off perfectly interesting characters. In my and other fans opinions, the character deaths were pointless. For one character in particular, keeping him alive could have promised so much more drama than what happened after his death, canonically. I still believe the show’s creators willingly sacrificed great storytelling so they could concentrate on using their animation/CG capabilities to their fullest. From then on, the whole thing went downhill fast.Because of this, I took it upon myself to bring that character back to life, and well, change history. Yes, it bothered me that much.I really hate to admit it, but I simply cannot write unless I’m in a certain mood, and the “movies” start playing in my head. And this is why my WIPs (works in progress) remain that way for now. Real life refuses to cut me any slack whatsoever.Anyway, two of the four shorts were strictly for fun, my first WIP was written to write a grievous wrong, and the other WIP was started for a contest and kept going because, it too is a lot of fun to write.StormyMonday | FanFictionI’m slowly hashing out more of my second WIP, but I’m not sure when new chapters will get finished. Encouragement always help, though! ;)
Is it illegal to host fan-written novelizations of TV show episodes?
I am asking this question about the legalities of doing something like this, because I am thinking of building a website for people who missed all the airings of a specific episode of their favorite TV show (e.g. "Star Trek," "Nip/Tuck," "Survivor," etc.), and want to know how the episode turned out. I want my members of the site to be able to submit a complete novelizations, as short or as long as they wish to write it, which describes and retells all of the events, details, and actions which took place in the episode, as close as possibly to how it actually happened in the show, and I want to make these documents publicly available for anyone to access free of charge. Basic concept: If people can't watch a show, they can still read it on my site. Q1 = Would public, fan-written novelizations of TV episodes violate US copyright law? Q2 = If the answer to question Q1 is No, then what kinds of things could potentially violate US copyright law, so that they may be avoided?
Should fanfiction ( and fan whatever) be banned?
Why should it be banned? There's nothing wrong with self-expression. Yeah, I guess there's some mature content on there that underaged people should really not know about but in the information it always says to what audience it's directed towards and if it has any things little kiddies shouldn't know about. If they decide to read it anyway, it's their fault. Plus, it's a place for little fangirls to let out all their craziest fantasies because everyone else would call them weird and delusional. I admit, I don't really enjoy fanfics but I see no reason for it to be banned.
Thoughts on Satan/Jesus fanfiction?!...?
Well, I'm sure the general fanfic public expects it to be erotica, as there seems to be little else out there in the fanfic world. And your chances of going to hell remain the same whether you write it or not. 0%, as hell is as much a fiction as whatever you're going to post.
What are some reasons why I should write fanfiction books?
You should not write fanfiction “books” as you can’t publish anything based on another’s work unless the work is in the public domain or you’ve been granted authorization by the author or property owner — and the folks who write those books are usually contracted by the property owners, as in the case of things like the Star Wars extended universe.As for why you should write fan fiction, it’s a great way to improve your writing skills with some basic support in place (existing readers who already enjoy a particular set of characters) and some of the plot or characterization has already been created for you, giving you a “boost.”
What does cannon on fan fiction mean? And noncannon?
Canon is what happens in the books. It what the author have told the reader. Noncannon, also known as fanon, is what happens in fanfiction, which is not the real book. So, canon is like non-fiction, and noncannon is fiction, if you get what I mean.