Make your fan fiction website on Ultrabook

Sort of! It isnʼt legal to make money off of a reimagined version of someone elseʼs copyrighted material, but many published works originated as fanfiction of copyrighted material. If the source-work has entered the public domain, then it is certainly legal to make money off of your own version of it.

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.

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

In the early 2010s, fans were directly monetizing their own work, while today, the powerand the moneyrests in the hands of traditional publishers scouring AO3 for hits, and with the illegal binders, selling othersʼ works for their own profit.

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.

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.

When writing fan fiction, Scrivener is the best tool to keep track of characters, stories, and the canon. You can use character sketches to record the traits of characters, along with other information about them, as you build up your stories.

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