Post by Mini Mia on Oct 12, 2016 0:59:19 GMT -6
Here is why an Author shouldn't allow others to write fan fiction of their works:
If you wonder why an author would NOT want fan fiction written, there have been cases when authors were lenient about fan fiction in their universe. As a result, fan fiction flooded the market. After a while, the author decided to write a new story about their characters. Once the author did, a FAN then sued the author claiming that the new "real" story had borrowed ideas from a fan fiction story.
If you have 10,000 people in the world all writing fan fiction in the Eragon universe, and then the actual author of Eragon decides to do a sequel, it's probably likely that at least some of those 10,000 people have mentioned an idea or two found in the sequel. It's common sense - how many realistic storylines could you write that were 100% unique? If the fan author then sues - now the real author is stuck, because even if he never even heard of the fan fiction story, it's hard to prove that. Plus, the fan fiction person is going to be out to get lots of money from this "rich" author and loses nothing by suing. It must be pretty scary for an author to realize he cannot write about his own world any more, because a fan fiction writer will sue him for theft.
