Aaron Schwabach

I wish I liked the first full book on fan fiction and the law better, but take my meh-ness with a grain of salt, because I didn’t write it! Schwabach knows Harry Potter best, but covers a lot of literary and pop-culture ground, including spending a lot of time on the utterly messed-up topic of copyright protection for characters as such. He also does his best to reconstruct the actual facts of the most famous pro-fan collisions, including Marion Zimmer Bradley and the fan novel that led to her saying that no one could write Darkover fanfic any more. Takeaway: the law should protect a lot of fan creations, but it’s not clear to him that it would.… (mehr)