JOUR 625 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fan Fiction, Derivative Work
22 May 2020
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At its core, fan fiction is taking a text and normally it"s copyrighted texts, like a book, movie, or tv show, and creating their own story by asking what happened next or what if this was different than that. It"s part of human nature to tell stories and retell stories. This was seen in old myths and the odyssey, which are considered the old version of fan fiction before copyright existed. Basically, fan fiction is an old impulse but technology has allowed users to mirror the production quality of major studios and producers to create their own story. Changes in technology have made it more accessible to people across the world. This implicates copyright, which is automatic and covers a wide array of things that lasts for a very long time. There was no original copyright law, the constitution authorizes congress to pass a law, which it did.
