On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Parks White <[email protected]> wrote:
> However, Anne Rice has consistently and aggressively prevented fan fiction > based on any of her characters (mostly those from her famous Interview with > the Vampire and its sequels in The Vampire Chronicles). She, along with Anne > McCaffrey and Raymond Feist, have asked to have any fiction related to their > series removed from FanFiction.Net.[30] George R.R. Martin, who was selected > by Timemagazine as one of the "2011 Time 100" and is most famous for his > epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, is also strongly opposed to fan > fiction, believing it to be copyright infringement and a bad exercise for > aspiring writers. > > Comments anyone? > > > Parks3 > > Quick example: I write a story where Pug is flying a magical pink piglet and it turns out it save the world, the universe and beyond. Then Ray gets his book out, and lo and behold by a sad coincidence there is that blue piglet that save the world. OMG Ray stole my story, let's go sue him... Hence why there is NO FANFICTION rule by Feist and other prominent writer. Rowling is done with Potter so I guess she doesnt care too much. You think nobody would sue for such a innocent reason? Think again. People would sue anyone for anything nowaday. And it happened before (lookup Anne Mcaffrey). PJ
