![]() James’ agent told Deadline, ‘This did start as ‘Twilight’ fan fiction, inspired by Stephenie Meyer’s wonderful series of books. ‘Copyright issues are at the core of fan fiction because using the characters and fictional worlds of commercial authors to create fan works is arguably a violation of the law from the outset,’ explains Steven Hechter in the British magazine Times Higher Education. But the sex isn’t the problem - it’s the copyright. Sometimes, as in the case of ’50 Shades of Grey,’ those relationships get sexual. Vibrant online communities have sprung up around some books - think the ‘Harry Potter’ series - in which people write and share their own versions of the characters in different places, time periods, and relationships. So far, fan fiction - in which devoted readers revivify characters from their favorite works in their own writing - has been left largely to flourish unimpeded.
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