We at MediaMiner would like to issue a reminder that there are authors and/or publishers who do not allow fan fiction based on their titles. This is a right they have as an author or owner of the work. No copyright owner has to allow fan fiction or even tolerate it. While fan fiction remains a grey area, legally, it is in your best interest as a writer to simply save yourself the trouble and hassle - just don't write for that title, no matter how much you may like it. As a fiction archive, however, we must do what we can to protect our site from any legal ramifications. Disclaimers do not work when a copyright owner has explicitly forbid derivative works or any "fan" works. As such, we keep an eye out for problem titles while we work on site maintenance. Fictions found to be derived from the above mentioned titles will be deleted.
Here is a listing for authors/publishers who do not allow fan fiction; this list is updated as we are informed of additional authors or publishers who have made statements on their websites or have filed Cease and Desist notices against fan fiction writers:
Archie Comics
P.N. Elrod
Raymond Feist
Terry Goodkind
Laurell K. Hamilton
Robin Hobb
Megan Lindholm (Robin Hobb)
Dennis L. McKiernan
Robin McKinley
Irene Radford
Anne Rice
Anne Rampling (Anne Rice)
A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Nora Roberts
J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
PLEASE NOTE: Archie Comics owns publication writes to comic titles that have previous owners or are derived from other types of media including movies, video games and books. Some of these titles include:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic X
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Josie and the Pussycats
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures
(There are many others; these are just some titles that are known to affect MediaMiner members.)
If you write for these series (or other Archie Comics titles) please remove them. Otherwise, they will be removed by MediaMiner staff as they are found. If you write for a non-Archie Comics variant of these titles (for example, the Sonic the Hedgehog video games) it is EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT that you STATE CLEARLY in your disclaimer who the copyright holder is. That is part of the reason we now require CLEAR DISCLAIMERS on all fiction.
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