I'll have to see if I can dig up the links from when I did an essay on fanfic a few years ago (I thought 'gee, it would be fun to do a paper on fanfic, but I doubt there are articles on it in scholarly sources... Oh what the heck, I'll do a search on EBSCO just for giggles and then... Wait... Is that an actual article on fanfic in the Georgetown Law Review?), but from what I recall a bit of digging brought me to the conclusion that like many other events the "Great Darkover Novel Killing Fanfic" has been greatly exaggerated over time.
Let's see...
A Making Light discussion thread touches on the Marion Zimmer Bradley 'fanfic' case. Linked to a good spot to start (Doing a Firefox search & highlight on Bradley seems to help filter for the relevant comments)
A post claiming to be from the other author in the Marion Zimmer Bradley case.
And for fun... The article that made me realize I might be able to get enough acceptable articles to do an English paper on the subject. Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law, by then student Rebecca Tushnet, now professor of Law at Georgetown, and one of the people involved in starting up the OTW.
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.
Let's see...
A Making Light discussion thread touches on the Marion Zimmer Bradley 'fanfic' case. Linked to a good spot to start (Doing a Firefox search & highlight on Bradley seems to help filter for the relevant comments)
A post claiming to be from the other author in the Marion Zimmer Bradley case.
And for fun... The article that made me realize I might be able to get enough acceptable articles to do an English paper on the subject. Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law, by then student Rebecca Tushnet, now professor of Law at Georgetown, and one of the people involved in starting up the OTW.
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.