Sam Barnett-Cormack scripsit: > You buy, or are given legally, a book. Now, copyright stops you from > doing most things with it, of course, including fanfic, strictly.
FWIW, the case that text-only fanfic actually constitutes a derivative work is extremely shaky. The leading case is about comic books, where of course there is a purely graphical resemblance as well. All those BigCos telling little web sites to take down their fanfic are skating on extremely thin ice, and they know it. -- Samuel Johnson on playing the violin: John Cowan "Difficult do you call it, Sir? [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wish it were impossible." http://www.ccil.org/~cowan -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
