Fanfiction again

[dumbledore11214]

So I love the books by Guy Gavriel Kay. I mean, I only read three 
books of his and till few days ago it was only two, but I loved them 
all dearly so far. I think he is amazing writer.

So I thought I would look for fanfiction in his universes. Mmmmm, 
nothing whatsoever on ff.net as far as I could see and only handful 
of stories, literally less than ten ( that is considering that they 
are all set in different books of his) on another site.

Now maybe there are other sites where there is plenty of stories set 
in his book universes, I cannot say, of course. Nevertheless I 
figured something is up, I know Kay is a very popular writer, cannot 
be that people just do not want to write fanfic about his books.

So I went to his authorized website and I am sure you guessed it. His 
stance on fanfiction is NO because of copyright problems it can 
create for him. Now of course that relates to publishing for profit, 
but he would not give express permission even for non profit 
publishing.

I mean I am sure he knows he cannot control if somebody wants to pub 
lish story not for profit on the internet and as I said above I found 
few stories on one site, but LOOK the writer's negative attitude 
about fanfiction seems to make HUGE difference, doesn't it?

Can we even calculate how many stories are written in HP universe? 
Hundreds of thousands on ff.net only? Say there are twenty or even 
thirty stories about Kay books elsewhere, still not comparable, right?


What I am trying to say is that I think JKR is being very generous 
with fanfic, much more than she could be.

JMO,

Alla