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At Wattpad, it is strictly prohibited for our users to post the copyrighted works of others without their explicit legal consent. We are deeply committed to this in our Copyright Policy, which can be found in our Terms of Service. With that, Wattpad does not allow users to publish adaptations of existing works.

If you want to publish it (that is, give or sell copies to someone), you need permission from the copyright holder. In the case of fanfiction, that may be the copyright holder of the fanfiction (for their work) and the copyright holder of the original work.

While regular fanfiction faces the issue of copyright, real-person fiction brings into question grounds for defamation. Beyond the realm of just fanfiction, were now seeing real consequences of deep ography that uses the likeness of real public personas.

No copyright owner has to allow fan fiction or even tolerate it. Fanlore has a list of Professional Author Fanfic Policies that includes authors who support and authors who discourage fan fiction of their works.

Legality of fanfiction In most cases, fanfiction involves using someone elses copyrighted work (or portions of it, like characters, setting, etc.), which can technically be copyright infringement, because copyright law grants the holder exclusive right to control how the work is used and distributed.

Fan fiction is often written and published among fans, and as such does not usually cater to readers without knowledge of the original media.

Yes, it is possible to get sued for writing fanfiction, as it generally involves using someone elses copyrighted characters or settings without their permission.

While fanfiction itself cannot be published or monetized for copywrite reasons, there are plenty of other ways you can make money from your stories. Some of the most profitable include: rewriting and self publishing them, starting a writers Patreon account, or designing fanfiction book covers.