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Fan writers who argue that their work is legal through the fair use doctrine use specific fair use arguments in the context of fan works, such as: Fan works do not deprive the owner of the source material of income. Fan works may work as free advertisement and promotion of the original source material.
Legal advocacy to the fandom community, addressing the legal issues with fan fiction and other fan works, including defending fans' fair use of copyrighted material. [ 10 ] Vidding (2008): a series of six short documentaries on vidding , in combination with participatory-culture academic Henry Jenkins and the New Media Literacies project at ...
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...
Fan fiction is the most widely known fan labor practice, and arguably one of the oldest, beginning at least as early as the 17th century. [4] [5] Fan fiction stories ("fan fic") are literary works produced by fans of a given media property, rather than the original creator. They may expand on an original story line, character relationship, or ...
So I took it out. Perhaps Lucasfilm did have a problem with fan fiction at one time or a specific type of fan fiction if anyone can clarify that. 68.62.227.73 03:58, 2 October 2007 (UTC) [ reply] Many years ago, Lucasfilm had a major cow over fanfic that included Luke/Leia 'ships.
In India, recourse can be had to trademark law which recognises that fictional characters enjoy goodwill, and provides relief for cases of ‘character merchandising’. ’. Character merchandising has been defined as involving the exploitation of fictional characters by licensing these fictional characters in the case of Star India Private Limited vs Leo Burnett (India) Private L
www.fanfiction.net. Registration. Optional. Launched. October 15, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-10-15) Current status. Active. FanFiction.Net (often abbreviated as FF.net or FFN) is an automated fan fiction archive site. It was first launched in 1998 by software designer Xing Li, and currently has over 12 million registered users.
Real person fiction or real people fiction (RPF) is a genre of writing similar to fan fiction, but featuring celebrities or other real people. [1]Before the term "real person fiction" (or "real people fiction") came into common usage, fans came up with a variety of terms, which are still used for specific genres or cultural practices in the RPF community; for example, bandfic, popslash, [2] or ...