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* 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...), [[George Lucas]] allegedly hit the roof when he found sexually explicit material for ''[[Star Wars]]''. And promptly went into orbit when he found the [[Slash Fic]]. He tried a repeat performance of this in the late '90s-early 2Ks when he found the Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan stuff, but found it was like playing whack-a-mole. It took until 2003 and [[BioWare]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|being really sneaky]] to finally slip a lesbian into the GFFA.
* 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 [[Critical Existence Failure|forfeit all their copyrights.]] The people who worked on it agreed never to release it, saying that it would have to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|remain on their computers]] for good. This statement prompted the forces of the internet and fandom to somehow [[Insistent Terminology|extract]] the film's final cut, and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|post it on the internet.]] Since those who made the film did [[Exact Words|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.
* In 1997 a group of folks were working on a ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]'' [[Game Mod|mod]] based on the ''[[Alien]]'' franchise simply titled ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Alien Quake]]'' until [[Twentieth Century Fox]] issued a Cease and Desist on them. The shutdown was notorious enough in the modding community to the point it even coined the term "[http://www.bluesnews.com/guide/qe/history/foxed.html foxed]" to refer for projects [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508081844/http://func-auton.net/blog/?p=41 similarly] shut down at the request of corporations.
** Oddly enough, Fox hasn't gone against ''Aliens TC'' for ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'', likely because modding wasn't that widespread back then.
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* [[Anne Rice]]. This article in Fanlore Wiki [https://fanlore.org/wiki/Anne_Rice explores it further].
* [[Robin Hobb]] - the aforementioned article has been archived [https://web.archive.org/web/20051124223715/http://www.robinhobb.com/rant.html here.]
* [[Charlaine Harris]] does [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105191929/http://www.charlaineharris.com/faqs.html not approve] of fanfic.
* [[Terry Goodkind]], though as yet it's unknown if there's a Fanwork Ban on ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]''.
* John Norman is known to be hostile to ''[[Gor]]'' fanfics.
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** There was also [https://groups.google.com/group/alt.books.pratchett/browse_thread/thread/7a044f92d9f3459c/ a period in the late 90s] when some am-dram companies were intepreting "permission is always given" for Discworld amateur theatrics as "permission need not be sought". He dealt with that by publicly announcing that permission would now be granted in exchange for a small donation to the Orang-Utan Foundation. He didn't want to start getting heavy on his own account, but ''now'' anyone who didn't comply would be defrauding a charity...
* This [http://www.mediaminer.org/blog/index.php?/archives/23-AuthorsPublishers-Who-Do-Not-Allow-Fan-Fiction.html list] also includes [[Raymond Feist]], [[PN Elrod]], [[Nora Roberts]] and a few others.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101102926/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1246633.html Diana Gabaldon] has compared fanfiction to, among other things, people breaking into her house or selling her children into slavery. This despite the fact that one of the characters from her books is heavily based on Jamie McCrimmon from ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* [[Anita Blake|Laurell K]][[Merry Gentry|. Hamilton]]
* [[Thursday Next|Jasper Fforde's]] stance, although mellower than it used to be, [http://www.jasperfforde.com/faq.html#u is still against fanfiction], to the extent that one book actually [[Writer on Board|talks about how much damage fanfiction writers are doing to]] ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''.
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* [[Tomonobu Itagaki]] sued a modding community years ago over their making nude mods of the female characters from the ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' series. He specifically cited the fact that the characters were like "his daughters" and that the mods were akin to violating them in real life. Most people on the Internet speculate that the lawsuit may have stemmed more from a personal problem with westerners (the modding community was American) than with maintaining copyright and the brand purity, since neither he nor Tecmo have batted an eye at the metric tonsloads of [[Hentai]] [[Doujinshi]] featuring those characters engaging in acts that would get them arrested in at least 30 countries.
** And saying that the DoA characters are like his daughters gets a little awkward given the sheer amount of [[Fan Service]] in the series.
* Epic Megagames put out a Cease & Desist against a fan who posted a picture of a [http://forums.xbox-scene.com/lofiversion/index.php/t590896.html custom Super Sculpey-made ''GearsOfWar'' action figure]{{Dead link}} he made for his cousin on his [[Deviant ART]] gallery page because he put it in a (also custom made) blister box, which the lawyers said looked ''too realistic''.
** [http://www.bootlegactionfigures.com The Undiscovered Playthings], a website for identifying and displaying bootleg toys got [http://www.bootlegactionfigures.com/nomorepokemon.html a C&D] from Nintendo over [[Pokémon]] toys featured on the site.
* The [[MUSH]] ''Multiverse Crisis MUSH'' acknowledges this phenomenon in its banned characters list, not allowing characters from works subject to Fanwork Ban to be played. However, [[Captain Ersatz]] versions of banned characters are fine- in fact, there is an entire theme in the game that is a [[Captain Ersatz]] version of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''.
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