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Well, Robin Hood is public domain.
Yep, if being derived from folklore was all it took to make something fanfiction, we'd have to move a lot of Shakespeare over.
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^^ Doesn't make it not derivative of an original property. If I wrote an It's a Wonderful Life fanfic, would that be classified as Literature/? note .
But at the same time, I can't imagine you'd consider, say, a novel based on the Greek Gods or any other mythology to be fanfiction. What's the cutoff for something being considered fanfiction or not?
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As far as this wiki is concerned, the line between fanfic and original fic is that fanfic infringes on an existing copyright. That's it.
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To clarify, it's an existing copyright in the fic author's home country at the time of release?
(In weird cases like American-written Sherlock Holmes, we might have to defer to the author's preference, as the last Holmes story doesn't hit the American PD until 2023.)
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It notes that it's a web series. Has the author self-published it, published it through an online distributor, or released it via fanfiction sites? ... I honestly can't tell from the page if it's even a written work.
(Ninja!) Geez, it is written, just badly explained so I had to look again to understand this meant word count— "short story, usually in the 13, 000 range"
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I've updated the page to reflect that it's an electronically published series of novelettes and novellas (mix of lengths from 12k to 22k).
Since Robin Hood is public domain, it isn't considered fanfiction. "Web Original" on this site refers to where the work originated in format— originally (or only) released on the internet. It doesn't refer to derivative or not.
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I see. So it's clear cut here, but I wouldn't be surprised if some other works fall in a gray area.
Question: Does Sherwood Forest really belongs in the Literature/ namespace, and the Web Original Fiction index, considering that it is basically a Robin Hood fanfiction?
In what way reusing some ancient myth makes it different to all the other fanfictions out there? I would see it belonging to the Fanfic/ namespace.