History Main / FanworkBan

* Diana Gabaldon

This of course never happens in Japan due to the widespread popularity of Doujinshi.

** This fan was a student and making the video as a project for his class, or so I've heard.

&view-> ''Reactions of character creators to fanfiction have been varied, from polite acknowledgment to legal threats to having their character discuss out loud how disturbing and weird some types of fanfiction are. Fanfictions reacted to all of these things by writing 9,000,000 new fanfics.''

** More curiously, his disapproval of fanfiction is not enough to stop him from writing fanfics for several 'What character would win in a fight?!' contests/debates/polls, including several that don't actually involve his characters.

** Likewise, videos critical of Disney can be pulled for "terms of violation".

-> ''Reactions of character creators to fanfiction have been varied, from polite acknowledgment to legal threats to having their character discuss out loud how disturbing and weird some types of fanfiction are. Fanfictions reacted to all of these things by writing 9,000,000 new fanfics.''

** If this is true, Mr. Hülsbeck seems to have relaxed a bit on this recently. There are now [[http://ocremix.org/artist/234/chris-hulsbeck/remixes four remixes of Hulsbeck works available on OCR]] and [[http://remix.kwed.org/index.php?chart=&view=date-asc&page=1&search=Chris%20H%FClsbeck two pages worth of arrangements of his work on RKO, dating back as far as 2001]].

*** Showing it in places considered to be ''commercial'' film festivals, OrSoIHeard.

* Games Workshop, of Warhammer and W40k fame, did this to the German-made fan-film ''{{Damnatus}}''. Annoyingly, the film's cease and desist order came ''after'' it was ready to release. In GW's defense, they were required by German copyright law to issue it or [[CriticalExistenceFailure forfeit all their copyrights.]] The people who worked on it agreed never to release it, saying that it would have to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar remain on their computers]] for good. This statement prompted the forces of the internet and fandom to some how [[InsistentTerminology extract]] the film's final cut, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome post it on the internet.]] Since those who made the film did [[ExactWords everything they were required to do]] to keep it from getting out they are legally safe from retribution. It is quite stunning in its quality, even though watching it in german with english subtitles makes it hard to admire the high quality physical effects. OrSoIHeard

** And RuleThirtyFour of ''KingdomHearts'' in Japan, even with original characters is strongly discouraged. Not that it matters with the {{Yaoi}} fangirls. The western side however has much more RuleThirtyFour of the girls in stock

Reasons for such a ban/restrictions vary. RobinHobb wrote an article sounding a bit like a PSA ("Fanfic -- JUST SAY NO!") that had the basic premise of "Those characters are like family to me. You don't like seeing your family put into weird or perverted situations, do you?" Others take the legal ground; that's how they make their living, and that's their intellectual property you are messing with. Others simply don't think anyone else can write their world as well as they can (detractors, however, might comment that they're worried that someone can write them ''better'' than the author can).

* SquareEnix hates {{Fan Remake}}s. Or rather, fan remakes that are due to release the same month as their own UpdatedRerelease.

* Games Workshop, of Warhammer and W40k fame, AFAIK don't mind ordinary fanfiction or fanart (although they have now deleted their entire extensive forums and all the stories on it without explanation) - after all, they hold occasional anthology competitions. However some people in...Germany, I think, were making a short film based on the 40k Inquisition called ''Damnatus''. The previews were fantastic, there were lots of excited people - then GW shut them down just a short time before the film was finished. They could have easily made their demands earlier on, rather than watching them do all the work then swoop in. I don't know whether they were exploiting it commercially or not, but I heard the reason for the C&D was simply 'only we're allowed to make movies'. So now we're waiting for ''Ultramarine'' to come out...and it had better be good.
** The film's cease and decist order came after it was ready to release. In GW's defense, they were required by German copyright law to issue it or [[CriticalExistenceFailure forfit all their copyrights.]] The people who worked on it agreed never to release it, saying that it would have to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar remain on their computers]] for good. This statement prompted the forces of the internet and fandom to some how [[InsistentTerminology extract]] the film's final cut, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome post it on the internet.]] Since those who made the film did [[ExactWords everything they were required to do]] to keep it from getting out they are legally safe from retribution. It is quite stunning in its quality, even though watching it in german with english subtitles makes it hard to admire the high quality physical effects. OrSoIHeard

** Likewise, videos critical of Disney can be pulled for "terms of violation"

* In the dark ages of FanFic, before the Internet (yes, kiddies, it did exist back then. Imagine your Trekker grandma passing around a bottle of good wine and the K/S fanfic...), GeorgeLucas allegedly hit the roof when he found sexually explicit material for StarWars. And promptly went into orbit when he found the SlashFic. He tried a repeat performance of this in the late 90's-early 2Ks when he found the Qui-Gon[=/=]Obi-Wan stuff, but found it was like playing whack-a-mole.

Reasons for such a ban/restrictions vary. Robin Hobb wrote an article sounding a bit like a PSA ("Fanfic -- JUST SAY NO!") that had the basic premise of "Those characters are like family to me. You don't like seeing your family put into weird or perverted situations, do you?" Others take the legal ground; that's how they make their living, and that's their intellectual property you are messing with. Others simply don't think anyone else can write their world as well as they can (detractors, however, might comment that they're worried that someone can write them ''better'' than the author can).