Difference between revisions of "Fan fiction"
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== Notable Examples == | == Notable Examples == | ||
=== Fanfiction.net === | === Fanfiction.net === | ||
| + | Fanfiction.net (or FFN) is the world’s largest source for fan fiction on the web, and accounts for more than 33% of all content about books online. It has the most extensive collection, popular and obscure. Users can follow serialized stories, publish their own, and create their own communities and story collections. Notably, Fan Fiction doesn’t let authors publish NC-17 rated content through user-moderation, and enforces restrictions on the types of stories you can submit (i.e. songfic, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, self-insertion, and non-fiction). Also, certain authors have requested that fan fiction won’t be generated for their works. | ||
=== Archive of Our Own === | === Archive of Our Own === | ||
| + | Archive of Our Own (AO3) is derived from the fan-run Organization for Transformative Works; this organization focuses on promoting the ‘legitimate and transformative nature of fan works.’ It differs from Fanfiction.net in that it allows any kind of fiction, excluding explicitly illegal content such as child pornography, trade secrets, etc. | ||
=== Kindle Worlds === | === Kindle Worlds === | ||
| + | Kindle Worlds is a fan fiction platform created by Amazon, with two distinct features from other fan fiction archives. There aren’t any legal issues, because all works on the site are derived from licensed media properties. Each licensed media work has their own rules for creating fan fiction works. Also, fan fiction authors can make money from what they write. The works are published through Amazon Publishing as e-books and are fully-available through the Kindle store. | ||
== Legality == | == Legality == | ||
Revision as of 03:25, 10 March 2018
Fan fiction is a general term that can be used to describe a variety written works about characters from fictional mediums such as movies, video games, books, comic books, etc. It can detail fictional musings about public characters, persona, and people. It is often written by fans of these mediums of works to create their own long-form entry or story based off a work; it’s done for free. These works are then read by other fans of the work and has, over time, has cultivated several online communities devoted to its creation. What is now recognized as modern fan fiction was popularized in the 1960s with ‘fanzines’ made by fans of the popular TV series Star Trek. The work is rarely professionally published or monetized and is usually done as a hobby. As fan fiction gains popularity, several services have allowed fans to publish, and even sell their works. Owners of the original works have varying attitudes about this practice, there are cases in which they have responded with legal action or disapproval of the content.
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Notable Examples
Fanfiction.net
Fanfiction.net (or FFN) is the world’s largest source for fan fiction on the web, and accounts for more than 33% of all content about books online. It has the most extensive collection, popular and obscure. Users can follow serialized stories, publish their own, and create their own communities and story collections. Notably, Fan Fiction doesn’t let authors publish NC-17 rated content through user-moderation, and enforces restrictions on the types of stories you can submit (i.e. songfic, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, self-insertion, and non-fiction). Also, certain authors have requested that fan fiction won’t be generated for their works.
Archive of Our Own
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is derived from the fan-run Organization for Transformative Works; this organization focuses on promoting the ‘legitimate and transformative nature of fan works.’ It differs from Fanfiction.net in that it allows any kind of fiction, excluding explicitly illegal content such as child pornography, trade secrets, etc.
Kindle Worlds
Kindle Worlds is a fan fiction platform created by Amazon, with two distinct features from other fan fiction archives. There aren’t any legal issues, because all works on the site are derived from licensed media properties. Each licensed media work has their own rules for creating fan fiction works. Also, fan fiction authors can make money from what they write. The works are published through Amazon Publishing as e-books and are fully-available through the Kindle store.
