Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
by bragr on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:30PM
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Fan fiction is basically illegal, or at best in a deeply gray area, it's just that most people realize suing your super-fans is a bad move. There are exceptions of course, Anne Rice was famously super litigious over any attempted fan fiction of her characters which generated a lot of bad feelings online.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gqjz/anne-rice-really-hate...
Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
by PrimeMcFly on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @05:37PM
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Paramount suing Star Trek fan productions is another great example. They recently took down the Wolf 359 audio book project for example.
Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam
by lmm on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:36PM
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> But you can distribute it for free, as fanfiction.
Not legally.
> Also, a no-CD crack does not contain any of the original work. It's akin to a program that you can use to modify, say, your legally-purchased Harry Potter ebook in order to change all instances of "wand" to "wang"
Doesn't matter, it's still a derivative work, just as a translation or annotation that doesn't contain any of the original text is a derivative work.
But you can distribute it for free, as fanfiction.
Also, a no-CD crack does not contain any of the original work. It's akin to a program that you can use to modify, say, your legally-purchased Harry Potter ebook in order to change all instances of "wand" to "wang"