Finishing someone else's story?

[loquere]

http://www.literotica.com/s/my-sister-is-a-vampire-conclusion

In this story he says nothing about getting permission for sequel.

-Are we allowed to do that, without permission from the original author?

 

[Stella_Omega]

http://www.literotica.com/s/my-sister-is-a-vampire-conclusion

In this story he says nothing about getting permission for sequel.

-Are we allowed to do that, without permission from the original author?

It was approved, right?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Getting permission from the original author is, at the very least, good manners.

 

[PennLady]

Getting permission from the original author is, at the very least, good manners.

Yes, but not required, it seems.

 

[sr71plt]

What the original author doesn't have to do to assert proprietary interest, though, is anything at all. If a sequel is done and the original author blasts it, he/she will have a whole lot of support from other authors.

 

[lovecraft68]

It was approved, right?

You're assuming "the editor" would have read the opening lines. Considering what else slides through the cracks, I wouldn't use it being approved as a sign its okay to do it.

Anyway I doubt its "illegal" the original author put it up for free and the sequel is free as well, so no money is being made off it.

I would say its "unethical" however.

A few months back I had a woman ask me if she could add a chapter to my SWB series. Something she thought would be a "fitting" look into their future, she said she would mention me in the credits etc....

I thought on it and told her no. They were my "kids" and I wasn't going to let anyone else babysit them.

 

[Stella_Omega]

the empirical answer is, yes, we can do that-- as you see it has been done.

We might not desire to do it, of course. There's a story out there that I'm dying to re-write, but the author will not answer my query. Only "yes" means yes, in my philosophy, so, no is the word.

I'm sure that, if the original author complained, lit would take it down. I'm not sure lit would remove it for anyone else.

 

[Neonurotic]

What's the appeal of piggybacking off another author's work? Sorry, I just find it lacks imagination. It's a bit disconcerting with hints of plagiarizing since you/whoever wouldn't be asking for permission from the original author.

 

[sethp]

I think you can as long as you mention the inspiration or first story. I wouldn't have a problem with that. I re wrote a story that was by another author, but I didn't post it. I gave it to one of my fans as special gift. That wasn't right. Lol

 

[Stella_Omega]

What's the appeal of piggybacking off another author's work? Sorry, I just find it lacks imagination. It's a bit disconcerting with hints of plagiarizing since you/whoever wouldn't be asking for permission from the original author.

Ah yeah... the eternal fanfic discussion. It's kind of like sex-positivism; we are not able to force our story-telling preferences onto anyone else, why ask why, à chacun son goût and all like that.

 

[sr71plt]

What's the appeal of piggybacking off another author's work? Sorry, I just find it lacks imagination. It's a bit disconcerting with hints of plagiarizing since you/whoever wouldn't be asking for permission from the original author.

There's a whole genre for it, bringing new/different life to stories. In the generic, it's what much writing is, redos/updates of folklore. Authors like Gregory MaGuire (Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost) have made an artform of it.

For stories here? Yes, I find it distasteful and lacks creativity. I feel the same way with all of the Star Trek kind of knockoffs that, I hope, are beginning to lose interest.