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[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 180282

Jim Ferer (me): "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."

Bart: "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."

I'd forgotten about that one. How easy is it for a fan to say that
this or that idea had been stolen from them? In HP, every conceivable
plot point has been done in fic, so JKR would have had to have Harry
marry McGonagall, for example, not to step on someone's toes.
Actually, there probably is a Harry/Minerva fic out there somewhere.
Some authors will not ever read fanfic even if they do allow it for
just that reason, so they can testify that they never read the stuff.

I hope that the state of the law has gotten to the point that an
author kindly disposed to fic needn't fear for it. IMO, JKR could have
taken one of my pathetic little fics and dropped it verbatim into one
of the books and I wouldn't have any recourse. (I would have been
thrilled).

Jim Ferer