Is fan fiction legal?
Fanfiction is legal, as long as you're not publishing it to make money or anything off of it. And as long as you don't claim any aspect of the original work for yourself.Why do you think FanFiction and other sites like Wattpad - Stories You'll Love exist? It's because you're not going to be able to stop people from writing, so you may as well give them a place to put it that's not going to get them in trouble.However, apparently some fanfictions get published with permission from the author. I'm looking at the Cursed Child (you know, that horrible Harry Potter “sequel” that was allowed to be published?). FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, IT ISN’T EVEN A WELL WRITTEN FANFICTION! (I've read better fanfictions by fifteen year old girls on FanFiction that are full of cliches and horrid grammar errors!)Some authors do request that fan fictions for certain authors/works aren’t published, but they can't police every fanfiction. It could technically be illegal by those standards, but are people really going to report everything that doesn't comply? The authors of the works are better off just leaving it be and letting them exist. Fanfiction is really only good for amateur writers and people who want different endings or altered events.Your short answer is yes, as long as you don't try to make money or claim the original work. Though for some it is technically illegal, no one is going to report everything and it's better to let it be.It is extremely hard to get rid of fanfiction, because fanfiction is everywhere in so many forms.
Can a GOT7 fanfiction be published as a novel?
No.It would require George Martin’s personally received permission, for he keeps the rights for any future literary development of his characters.And good luck with:1) asking him (a worldwide celebrity like him probably receives one hundred messages daily)2) convince him into making some more money (for he doesn’t need more than he have already).MY FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE WITH THE SUBJECTI did the same with RAMBO instead than GOT, and after two extremely long years, I finally found a way to communicate with Rambo’s creator David Morrell.After a brief chat about who the XXX I was, he finally let me freeshare my work (you have to know that while GOT fanfiction is allowed, Rambo fanfiction was not, at the time). What I am trying to say, is that it took me two years just to have the permisson to freeshare my fanfiction just like any other is. Yep.Then, after about one year, I received critical acclaim in Italy, UK, US and Germany, and was mentioned during two literary awards.As of sep. 2017, my fanbase is about 2000–4000 readers (a more precise record is impossible because being a freeshare work, people is sharing it with means I can’t track, like torrent programs, emails and other wepsites hosting the whole novels of my saga).And then, from ‘behind the scenes experts’, someone told me that’s exactly the reason famous authors usually stay miles away from fanfiction, or despise it outright: because in some very rare instances, it could be a menace.Here below, you can see me receiving the fourth place for the ‘honorary medal’ during a literary award in Naples with a Rambo-prequel-freeshare-only novel. Please note that a little more than 100 published works on paper (and published with ‘real’, commercial-oriented publishing companies) ran for that award and that my novel was the only fanfiction available on the internet only, and for free.
Is it illegal to write smut fanfiction for Harry Potter?
Okay, now, I've read fanfiction for a LONG time and I've never read about there being a problem with this. However, I was just looking around online a while ago and found this wikiHow article: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Fanfiction . In the article, it states: According to US law on the matter any person/character, fictional or real, that is reasonably assumed to be under 18 is a child, and therefor any sexual explicit material including such persons/characters is child pornography in the eyes of the law. This means that, according to US law, if you write a story about Harry Potter in which he has sex you are writing child pornography because the character is assumed to be 11 to 17 years old (his ages in the books). This CANNOT be negated by "turning them 18". Be careful that you do not get your account deleted or become the subject of legal action. I have never heard of such a thing, and I've read so many fics where they have done exactly what they are warning you not to do. I thought the law was that real minors aren't allowed to be portrayed in sexual ways, not fictional characters that don't exist. Also, why in the world would it the law still be applicable if it's stated in the story that the characters are of age? I haven't been able to find anything supporting this online at all, so I'm thinking it's probably bull. Does anyone know?
Can you legally post fan art on the Internet?
Fan art is technically copyright infringement. The right to make derivative works is exclusive to the author and you need their permission to make creations like this.That said, copyright protections are something that the creator needs to actively enforce themselves. You won’t get arrested for it, more likely your effort will just be ignored, provided you are seeking no monetary gain.When a publisher or content maker wants to enforce their copyright, they generally do DMCA takedowns, but they do have the right to just directly sue you and seek a restitution for monetary damages they are due. Missing licensing fees, lost sales, and statutory damages (automatic fees of up to $70,000) are all consequences you could be looking at for ignoring their copyrights.Your best course of action is to first see if the publisher or content maker already has a fan policy. Star Trek does, for instance: Star Trek Fan Films (and a skeptical look at these policies: The Insanely Strict Rules Star Trek Fans Must Follow If They Want To Make A Fan Film)And you might do a web search to see if this publisher has sued people before. And why. Rowling Wins Lawsuit Against Potter Lexicon. or 'I almost got sued for knitting a Firefly hat': The legal risks of pop-culture fan art
Is it illiegal to take information from a book and post it online if you're only copying a few pages provided you're not selling it?
Probably! It really depends on how you are using it, though. First off, I am going to assume you are in the United States. Copyright law is really different around the world, so if you live elsewhere, you'll have to check with your local laws. In the US, you generally need to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce or post a copyrighted work. There are exceptions under the doctrine of fair use. First, you'll need to figure out if the work is actually copyrighted. If the work you are copying from was published before 1923, it is in the public domain (yay!). If it was published after that, there is a good chance it is still under copyright, with a few exceptions like government documents.If the work is copyrighted, you'll need to decide if you are engaged in fair use. These things are generally okay:Criticism & Commentary. For example, the blogger Fred Clark has done an (excellent!) series of posts discussing the Left Behind novels. He can extensively quote the books and even sell an eBook of his collected posts. (The Anti-Christ Handbook: The Horror and Hilarity of Left Behind).Parody. Sesame Street can do a parody of Hunger GamesNews. If CNN is doing a report about a new book released by a presidential candidate, they can include some quotes from the book or post them to their website. Transformative Works. People all over the internet can write Harry Potter fanfiction (though generally not sell it) because they are extensively transforming the source material to create new artistic works.Scholarship. A professor writing a journal article on the history of women in hip hop can quote Lauryn Hill's song lyrics. Very short excerpts. If I am reading the latest Game of Thrones novel, I can post a favorite paragraph to Facebook or Twitter with a relevant GIF.If you are just posting a large portion of a copyrighted work without commentary, it is likely not fair use, even if you aren't making money. A court would probably rule you are harming the market for the work. There is a good guide to fair use here: Fair Use Frequently Asked Questions. Your local public or university library is also a great resource; librarians tend to know a lot about copyright law by necessity.
J.R.R Tolkien finished many of the major stories in his world but not the full stories of Earendil and Elwing. Who could do that now?
Officially? Nobody without the permission of the Tolkien Estate, which holds the copyrights to his works. Eventually his work will be out of copyright, then you may see any number of sequels, prequels, back stories, and whatnot published commercially.Unofficially, there is plenty of fan fiction featuring Earendil and/or Elwing as either primary or secondary characters. There’s more about Elwing than Earendil—many authors are interested in her psychology and why she did what she did in abandoning her children, and how she dealt with that later in her life. There are also quite a few reunion stories featuring Elrond and his parents. Some of these stories are good and reasonably credible. There is no way to know if any of them are close to what Tolkien would have envisioned. I think he might have wanted to preserve the fairy-tale quality of a wife who turns into a bird to meet her star-husband.