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Dirk Meulenbelt’s avatar

I am not allowed to sell my Star Wars fan-fiction. Why not?

Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Not a lawyer but I believe such fan fiction would be considered a derivative work.

Copyright protects original creators’ exclusive right to create derivative works. So, selling your Star Wars fan fiction without permission from the copyright holders would be copyright infringement.

See this article.

Dirk Meulenbelt’s avatar
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This is stifling to creativity, as now people are not incentivised to write fan-fictions as much as without copyright.

I fail to see how fan fiction is at all damaging to an original creator.

We have found an example where copyright is bad.

Where is copyright good?

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

This idea contains at least two claims and one question:

  1. Copyright stifles creativity.
  2. Fan fiction does not damage creators.
  3. “Where is copyright good?”

It’s unwise to submit multiple ideas at once as they each become susceptible to ‘bulk criticism’. That can unduly weaken your own position.

Try submitting the ideas again, separately.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar
Dennis Hackethal revised 6 months ago·#1327· Collapse
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This idea isn’t marked as a criticism but presumably should be. (Though it need not be marked as a criticism anymore if it’s going to split up into multiple separate submissions as per #1324.)

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