Fan Fiction is Protected by Copyright Law!
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| Title: | Fan Fiction is Protected by Copyright Law! |
| Creator: | Patchmonkey |
| Date(s): | very early 2000s, perhaps 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
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| Topic: | Fanfiction, Copyright |
| External Links: | "online here, via Wayback". Archived from the original on 2002-01-11. |
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Fan Fiction is Protected by Copyright Law! is an essay posted at Writers University. It is by Patchmonkey.
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Intriguingly enough, as derivative works, fanfiction is protected by copyright law as long as the words and syntax are novel. The author of such a work will not own the pre-existing characters, but they do own the right to the words and syntax, which, for lack of a better term, makes the story. Now then, there are some standards for copyright protection.