JOUR 625 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Fan Fiction
16 Jun 2020
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Fan fiction is a spin off an original work of fiction and has the same characters or settings from the original story that fans create instead of the original author. Usually, fan fiction isn"t good enough to create a marketable or financial threat to the original work. This means that you probably won"t have to deal with a lawsuit filed against you for what you choose to write. In order to understand how copyright law affects and works with fan fiction, you need to start with trying to understand that copyright law generally looks at creative work as various levels of abstraction. This means that you should initially think about how a stereotypical creative process might occur for a book. You begin with an idea that starts to take for with a universe that"s considered fictional on some level as you add locations, elements, and characters to create your world.
