Grabbing some else's fictional character is stealing, pure and simple.
Not legally, or The Wind Done Gone wouldn't have been found legal fair use.
Some usages of other people's writing are permitted--for parody, for critique, for transformative purposes. The boundaries of fair use and transformation haven't been legally established.
You can believe that fanfic lies outside of those boundaries, but that doesn't make it a simple, obvious issue.
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Date: 2008-01-12 06:13 pm (UTC)Not legally, or The Wind Done Gone wouldn't have been found legal fair use.
Some usages of other people's writing are permitted--for parody, for critique, for transformative purposes. The boundaries of fair use and transformation haven't been legally established.
You can believe that fanfic lies outside of those boundaries, but that doesn't make it a simple, obvious issue.