Ah, you missed Anne McCaffrey forcing fanfic.net to remove all fanfic relating to her works back in the early 00's - circa 2002-2003.
http://www.trickster.org/symposium/symp81.html
In the past, there have indeed been instances where fan sites found themselves on the receiving end of a "cease and desist" letter for illegally posting FanFiction or FanArt (e.g. look at this article about Anne McCaffrey's (now old) policies on FanWorks and the following notice about Pern copyright on Dee Dreslough's site). Sites like FanFiction.Net and Elfwood would not even accept any submissions related to Pern because of these issues.
However, the situation is much more relaxed nowadays and the way how fan works are handled has changed. This has led to a reopening of the possibilities of posting FanFiction and FanArt based on Anne's worlds online. The new McCaffrey section on FanFiction.Net keeps growing and has 115 entries by now. Fans will be glad to hear that according to the discussion at the Future of Fandom panel during Dragon*Con 2006, the new Pern movie deal is unlikely to interfere with fandom's new-found freedom.
http://www.watchdragon.com/fandom_archive.html
http://www.whoosh.org/issue62/ecks2.html
There was also a huge kerfuffle a while back based on an interview that got taken down - where she expressed homophobia:
Of late, McCaffrey has become almost as well known for her odd ideas regarding homosexuality as for her writing. In particular, she has stated a belief that any homosexual activity, particularly anal penetration, will make a man instantly and irretrievably gay (an idea first put forth in the infamous, but still unverified, "Tent Peg" interview and implied in her on-the-record "Renewable Air Force" interview). Ironically, in the last book of the Talent series she turns a previously exclusively gay character totally and apparently permanently straight for a Last Minute Hook Up with a female main character — can't leave anyone single, after all. She also was a rather adamant defender of copyright and had a tendency to sic lawyers after any gathering of fanworks published, especially once the internet started taking off. This policy has been relaxed in recent years.
Go here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnneMcCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey much like many published authors...over-reacted to fanfic once the internet took off. Before fanfic was basically relegated to fanzines and rarely seen, now it is everywhere on the net and that scares the original text writers - who fear that if fans can get more for free why oh why would they buy theirs? Writers are amongst the most insecure people on the planet, well next to actors and artists. LOL!
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Date: 2010-05-12 12:46 am (UTC)Ah, you missed Anne McCaffrey forcing fanfic.net to remove all fanfic relating to her works back in the early 00's - circa 2002-2003.
http://www.trickster.org/symposium/symp81.html
In the past, there have indeed been instances where fan sites found themselves on the receiving end of a "cease and desist" letter for illegally posting FanFiction or FanArt (e.g. look at this article about Anne McCaffrey's (now old) policies on FanWorks and the following notice about Pern copyright on Dee Dreslough's site). Sites like FanFiction.Net and Elfwood would not even accept any submissions related to Pern because of these issues.
However, the situation is much more relaxed nowadays and the way how fan works are handled has changed. This has led to a reopening of the possibilities of posting FanFiction and FanArt based on Anne's worlds online. The new McCaffrey section on FanFiction.Net keeps growing and has 115 entries by now. Fans will be glad to hear that according to the discussion at the Future of Fandom panel during Dragon*Con 2006, the new Pern movie deal is unlikely to interfere with fandom's new-found freedom.
http://www.watchdragon.com/fandom_archive.html
http://www.whoosh.org/issue62/ecks2.html
There was also a huge kerfuffle a while back based on an interview that got taken down - where she expressed homophobia:
Of late, McCaffrey has become almost as well known for her odd ideas regarding homosexuality as for her writing. In particular, she has stated a belief that any homosexual activity, particularly anal penetration, will make a man instantly and irretrievably gay (an idea first put forth in the infamous, but still unverified, "Tent Peg" interview and implied in her on-the-record "Renewable Air Force" interview). Ironically, in the last book of the Talent series she turns a previously exclusively gay character totally and apparently permanently straight for a Last Minute Hook Up with a female main character — can't leave anyone single, after all. She also was a rather adamant defender of copyright and had a tendency to sic lawyers after any gathering of fanworks published, especially once the internet started taking off. This policy has been relaxed in recent years.
Go here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnneMcCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey much like many published authors...over-reacted to fanfic once the internet took off. Before fanfic was basically relegated to fanzines and rarely seen, now it is everywhere on the net and that scares the original text writers - who fear that if fans can get more for free why oh why would they buy theirs? Writers are amongst the most insecure people on the planet, well next to actors and artists. LOL!