{"id":34,"date":"2009-09-17T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-09-17T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T19:44:20","slug":"fanworks-derivative-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Fanworks & Derivative Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned about some ridiculous DRAMA! recently over the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stealing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of ideas in fanfic and my partner in crime, , has written up a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fanworks license\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for her works. Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had people ask about creating derivative works of my fanfics, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d also like to clarify my stance on the issue by shamelessly plagiarizing<\/strike> borrowing Juno\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s text to apply to my own works (with some modifications).
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\nMy feeling is that if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to borrow stuff from DC Comics and JRR Tolkien, I sure as hell have no moral standing to get uptight if someone is inspired to use my<\/i> works. In fact, I consider it a fantabulous compliment and it makes me squee! So if you are ever inspired to use one of my original settings (e.g. my Alternate Universes\/Elseworlds or the specifics of a particular fanfic) or any of my Original Characters, please feel free to do so! You do not even have to ask my permission (though I would love<\/i> to know if you are creating a derivative work of my stuff, because I would love<\/i> to see it!). I just ask for a credit and a linky back to the original, along the lines of:<\/p>\n

[Fanwork\/Fanfic\/Fanart\/Remix\/etc] based on \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc[Title of original fanwork]\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Aranel Took. (Or, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc[character name]\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 based on an original character from \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc[Title of original fanwork]\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Aranel Took.) Used by permission. The original work can be found at [link to original work].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This does not apply to general ideas, such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the GLC as pirates\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. No matter what the more insane segments of fandom would like to believe, using the same general idea as someone else is NOT plagiarism and does not require any sort of permission or credit, unless you borrow specific elements of another fic (such as original characters or unique plot points, dialogue or scenes). If you write a story with the GLC as pirates, you only have to give me credit if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve actually borrowed unique elements of my Pirate!GLs fics. <\/p>\n

I am also quite happy to help out with a derivative work (such as if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re wanting to stay \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in canon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in a particular AU) — please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hesitate to email\/PM me about anything! And if I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reply, email me again with a reminder, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a doofus with an aging brain who forgets what she read in her emails ten minutes ago. \ud83d\ude09
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I learned about some ridiculous DRAMA! recently over the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stealing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of ideas in fanfic and my partner in crime, , has written up a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fanworks license\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for her works. Since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had people ask about creating derivative works of my fanfics, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d also like to clarify my stance on the issue by shamelessly plagiarizing borrowing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}