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The Murloc is Lonely, an ever-evolving Fan Fiction has recently passed its 1-year anniversary. You can see all sections of The Murloc is Lonely by clicking here, and be sure to read the latest addition to Book Two here.
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Answer: If a Fan Fiction author uses copyrighted elements in someone else's work in his/her story, then the fan fiction may be a derivative work. There are many elements of a work that an author can borrow. The law... does not clearly define whether fictitious characters, worlds, histories and names are copyright protected.
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In 1975, "slash" fan fiction, and fan fiction in general, were recognized academically in a Grup article by D. Marchant. The book Star Trek Lives!, edited by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak and Joan Winston, was published by Bantam Books and distributed to bookstores and newsstands. An analysis of the Star Trek fan phenomenon, it contained an entire chapter on fan fiction. David Gerrold's The World of Star Trek (1974), included fan fiction in its chapter on fan activities. Neither book mentioned slash.
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The 1970s saw an expansion of fan fiction distribution and further laid the foundations of the modern subculture surrounding the genre. Grup, the first Trek fanzine oriented toward sexually-explicit fan fiction, was first published in 1972. In 1973
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Sci-Fi looks like Science Fiction to people who don't know better (including most of the Hollywood studios) because they identify genres by the tropes that appear. They assume that anything with spaceships or robots or clones or telepathy or antigravity or death rays must be Science Fiction. It need not be. They assume that anything with 6-guns, horses, and cowboys must be a Western. It need not be. The assume that anything with cops, detectives, whores, and murders must be a Noir Mystery.
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Jenkins sees fan fiction as part of a larger trend that involves the blending of fictional elements across media and cultures...made possible by new technology. He plans to develop his theory of "cultural convergence" in a future book.
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