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* [[J. K. Rowling]] has said that she actually ''likes'' her fans writing fanfic and doing other fannish things, but she doesn't like the fanfics where her characters have sex when they're minors. Her voiced displeasure about the 'under-aged' porn 'fics is partially because, the kiddie porn- and partially because [[Word of God|she]] fears for the kids who ''accidentally'' discover [[Rule 34]] first-hand. This 'rule' still [[Subverted Trope|doesn't stop]] ''anyone'' from writing them though!

* [[The Other Wiki]] says this about [[wikipedia:Marion Zimmer Bradley|Marion Zimmer Bradley]]:

{{quote| "For many years, Bradley actively encouraged [[Darkover]] fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction."}}

{{quote|"For many years, Bradley actively encouraged [[Darkover]] fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction."}}

** As is often the case, there are two sides to a story. See [http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/1470621.html?thread=20753821#t20753821 here]. Also [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/2649a35b264175b8/b91ef5c1e50f3439?#b91ef5c1e50f3439 this Usenet thread].

*** For a reasonably dispassionate third-party summation of all the sides of this issue, see [http://jimhines.livejournal.com/507999.html this article].

* Strongly influenced by Bradley's experiences, Mercedes Lackey actively banned fan fiction in her universes (except under certain draconian conditions) for over two decades. However, as of late 2009, she has altered her stance to allow fanfic licensed under [[Creative Commons]]:

{{quote| "As you folks already know, my agent, Russel Galen, has in the past been opposed to fanfiction. However, he is also [[Cory Doctorow]]'s agent now, and Cory is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|persuasive little gnome]]."}}

{{quote|"As you folks already know, my agent, Russel Galen, has in the past been opposed to fanfiction. However, he is also [[Cory Doctorow]]'s agent now, and Cory is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|persuasive little gnome]]."}}

* [[Terry Pratchett]] mentioned in a 2007 lecture that he's developed a balanced compromise that seems to work: Fans are free to have as much good-natured fun as they wish (non-commercially, of course), provided that they automatically surrender all their creative rights to the derived works back to Pratchett. That way, he says, if a potential licensee asks if anyone else has made a video adaptation of ''Jingo'', he can simply state "Yes, but I own all the rights to it" and it doesn't seem to bother them at all.

** When it comes to original [[Fan Fiction]], he doesn't mind its existence as long as it doesn't happen where he can see it. Just in case someone tries to claim he stole their Discworld ideas. (The legal aspects don't bother him - he ''doesn't'' steal ideas, and a court of law would find in his favour - but mud sticks.)