[HPforGrownups] Re: Now Rowling's control, was Less than 1000 posts

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 180269

Jim Ferer wrote:
> You're wrong about fanfiction, too. Many authors vigorously suppress
> fanfiction on their works. Fanfiction can and has been seen as a
> threat to an author's copyright; others plain don't want anybody else
> playing in their world, and they say so.

	And Marion Zimmer Bradley, possibly the first major author to endorse 
fanfiction of her works, got sued by a fan for her efforts, forcing her 
to drop the book she had been working on for a couple of years.

	Bart