Using Jill by GrantLee

[mugglensu]

Someone please continue the story series Using Jill, by GrantLee.

Stories of GrantLee

 

[sirhugs]

Someone please continue the story series Using Jill, by GrantLee.

Stories of GrantLee

of course, copyright prevents continuing another writer's story without consent.

 

[lovecraft68]

Every story in the file non consent, what a lovely person.

 

[Carnevil9]

of course, copyright prevents continuing another writer's story without consent.

IANAL, but I'm not sure a copyright exists if you don't even put your real legal name on a work.

 

[sirhugs]

IANAL, but I'm not sure a copyright exists if you don't even put your real legal name on a work.

tell that to George Sand. Or JK Rowling (aka Robert Galbraigth). or Erle Stanley Gardner aka A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr. or any writer using a pseudonym.

The issue is in enforcing the copyright, not whether you have one.

 

[Carnevil9]

tell that to George Sand. Or JK Rowling (aka Robert Galbraigth). or Erle Stanley Gardner aka A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr. or any writer using a pseudonym.

The issue is in enforcing the copyright, not whether you have one.

You are proving my point. All those writers have real names that are connected to their work via the publishing industry and their legal contracts; the fact that you can look up their legal name is the difference. You trace the work back to the real person. That is not true of the vast number of people posting stories here at Lit.

But you are correct about the enforcement issue. In fact, I suspect we are saying the same thing with different words.

 

[LupusDei]

However gray that area is, writing derivative "fan fiction" works (ab)using characters and/or settings and outright trying to "continue" apparently unfinished story itself is two big differences still. The second being worse in every aspect.