So far, there are only 3 out of 700 (all Smallville) we know may be fan fic printed without permission. But do keep checking.
With respect to the legit copies, only the fanzines dealers can tell if she's selling photocopies of their originals. We should be focusing on the fan stories that were printed off the net and sold without permission (the unauthorized fanzines).
My advice is to contact the publishers and writers to verify before pulling in copyright police. We don’t want to put the fan writers and publishers who genuinely published their work into the cross-hairs. The broad approach has scared on fan away from thinking of publishing her own fan fic. She’s afraid that people will report her. Which is not what you're trying to accomplish.
ps ender wiggen has a great list of authorized smallville fanzines. Use that as a starting point of sorting out the fan fic.
For other fandoms, we have lists of 'genuine’ fanzines http://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/995000.html
I just finished a list of Supernatural fanzines in print, so fanzines for newer fandoms and fan sitting in archives not always ‘stolen’. Publishers release fan fic after one year or sometimes they reporting online fan fic (with the author’s permission).
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Date: 2009-07-27 07:40 pm (UTC)With respect to the legit copies, only the fanzines dealers can tell if she's selling photocopies of their originals. We should be focusing on the fan stories that were printed off the net and sold without permission (the unauthorized fanzines).
My advice is to contact the publishers and writers to verify before pulling in copyright police. We don’t want to put the fan writers and publishers who genuinely published their work into the cross-hairs. The broad approach has scared on fan away from thinking of publishing her own fan fic. She’s afraid that people will report her. Which is not what you're trying to accomplish.
ps ender wiggen has a great list of authorized smallville fanzines. Use that as a starting point of sorting out the fan fic.
For other fandoms, we have lists of 'genuine’ fanzines
http://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/995000.html
I just finished a list of Supernatural fanzines in print, so fanzines for newer fandoms and fan sitting in archives not always ‘stolen’. Publishers release fan fic after one year or sometimes they reporting online fan fic (with the author’s permission).