Using other authors characters.

[p_white98]

I am a long time reader. I want to add a chapter to an existing story line. There have been other stories with "alternate endings".

The original author is here:
https://www.literotica.com/authors/bothways123/works/stories

My attempts to contact the author have been completely unsuccessful. I've left my email in comments (ya, not good practice, but its a throw away account). I've sent email via Lit several times. No response to either. Having made a good faith effort, I feel like I've been honest and open. My plan is to submit a story in the next few days.

PW

 

[crookedletter]

No. Write your own.

 

[cw5523729]

Having made a good faith effort, I feel like I've been honest and open. My plan is to submit a story in the next few days.

A lack of response is NOT the same as obtaining approval. No one is under any obligation at all to respond to you.

Continuing someone else's story without their consent is wildly inappropriate.

eta: especially when the author in question has published within the past friggin' week!

 

[PennyThompson]

I am a long time reader. I want to add a chapter to an existing story line. There have been other stories with "alternate endings".

The original author is here:
https://www.literotica.com/authors/bothways123/works/stories

My attempts to contact the author have been completely unsuccessful. I've left my email in comments (ya, not good practice, but its a throw away account). I've sent email via Lit several times. No response to either. Having made a good faith effort, I feel like I've been honest and open. My plan is to submit a story in the next few days.

PW

Sometimes a "good faith effort," just isn't enough. You don't have the consent of the writer to take their characters, and although it probably doesn't rise to the level of actual copyright infringement, it's certainly bad form.

I'll also note that @bothways123 has a story that was just published four days ago, so it's not even like they've abandoned writing here.

If you don't get the explicit permission of the original writer, you should keep your fanfic to yourself.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I am a long time reader. I want to add a chapter to an existing story line. There have been other stories with "alternate endings".

The original author is here:
https://www.literotica.com/authors/bothways123/works/stories

My attempts to contact the author have been completely unsuccessful. I've left my email in comments (ya, not good practice, but its a throw away account). I've sent email via Lit several times. No response to either. Having made a good faith effort, I feel like I've been honest and open. My plan is to submit a story in the next few days.

PW

Do not do this.

Edit: as for being honest and open, does your story open with a disclaimer saying "these characters were created by bothways123. I have sought but not received permission to use them in this work."? Because if not, you're not being open and honest with the audience.

 

[ronde]

Absolutely no. It appears that this author is still writing and publishing. He has no responsibility to respond. The fact that he hasn't responded to your inquiry should tell you that he has no desire to correspond with you and does not want you to add to one of his stories. As crookedletter said, "Write your own story."

 

[cw5523729]

And... according to your profile, you don't have a single story published. Maybe try writing at least one of your own before you look to steal someone else's? Just a thought.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Ladies, gentlemen, and you rare and precious enbies, time is a flat circle and we have returned to this conversation again after so many months of pending lamentations and AI rejections. It's almost a welcome change of pace!

Lift up your glasses. We have been here before, and we shall be again.

наздаро́фье!

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Ladies, gentlemen, and you rare and precious enbies, time is a flat circle and we have returned to this conversation again after so many months of pending lamentations and AI rejections. It's almost a welcome change of pace!

Lift up your glasses. We have been here before, and we shall be again.

There should really be more stickies in this forum, which we could simply link to all the people who are new to all this. There are like five recurring topics that should be covered.

 

[AwkwardMD]

There should really be more stickies in this forum, which we could simply link to all the people who are new to all this. There are like five recurring topics that should be covered.

This would certainly be one of the stickies of all time!

 

[MelissaBaby]

Ladies, gentlemen, and you rare and precious enbies, time is a flat circle and we have returned to this conversation again after so many months of pending lamentations and AI rejections. It's almost a welcome change of pace!

Lift up your glasses. We have been here before, and we shall be again.

наздаро́фье!

It's the Battlestar Galactica of AH topics.

 

[WittyUserName]

I am a long time reader. I want to add a chapter to an existing story line. There have been other stories with "alternate endings".

The original author is here:
https://www.literotica.com/authors/bothways123/works/stories

My attempts to contact the author have been completely unsuccessful. I've left my email in comments (ya, not good practice, but its a throw away account). I've sent email via Lit several times. No response to either. Having made a good faith effort, I feel like I've been honest and open. My plan is to submit a story in the next few days.

PW

I agree with everyone else here. Unless you have actual approval, it's not okay. A lack of response is not approval. Especially if they're an active site member. If you want to write it for yourself and never post it, go for it. The problem is posting it. I'm not a legal expert, but my understanding is that even fanfiction is often illegal, it's just popular authors don't bother(thinking of Harry Potter fan fiction, which is very popular). I might be wrong about that. Either way, the site won't post it, nor should they.

 

[PennyThompson]

There should really be more stickies in this forum, which we could simply link to all the people who are new to all this. There are like five recurring topics that should be covered.

Maybe just one FAQ sticky, with some mod-approved replies each to a different drinkable topic?

 

[AwkwardMD]

Maybe just one FAQ sticky, with some mod-approved replies each to a different drinkable topic?

FrancisScott got a thread stickied for a subject like this. Someone should message the AH Mod (who is me) to ask for specifics.

 

[cw5523729]

 

[cw5523729]

Huh, and in your earlier thread, you asked that the entire site change its clock so that new stories could be released daily on a schedule that better suits your particular want.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/new-day-starting-time.1645260

Thank you for reinforcing the stereotype that us Americans are a bunch of self-centered a-holes. I didn't get that enough already.

 

[SimonDoom]

I am a long time reader. I want to add a chapter to an existing story line. There have been other stories with "alternate endings".

The original author is here:
https://www.literotica.com/authors/bothways123/works/stories

My attempts to contact the author have been completely unsuccessful. I've left my email in comments (ya, not good practice, but its a throw away account). I've sent email via Lit several times. No response to either. Having made a good faith effort, I feel like I've been honest and open. My plan is to submit a story in the next few days.

PW

As you can tell from the other comments, this topic has been covered many times in previous threads.

The answer is that you should not write a continuation of another Literotica author's story, or use that author's characters, without express permission. A good faith attempt to get permission is not enough.

The Site owners have said, specifically, that you should get permission before you do this.

 

[StillStunned]

I say, go for it!

Not that I think you should. But it's important to have a balanced discussion of your options option.

 

[MelissaBaby]

If someone wrote a story using my characters without permission, I don't think I'd get mad about it. I'd just write a 750 word followup, in which one of the characters wakes up and tells their partner, "I just had the stupidest dream..."

 

[Z_TheWriter]

If someone wrote a story using my characters without permission, I don't think I'd get mad about it. I'd just write a 750 word followup, in which one of the characters wakes up and tells their partner, "I just had the stupidest dream..."

I read a story on here where an author did this to themselves. Well not 750 words, but the start of the followup used "I had this dumb dream" to retcon the last several chapters of the previous story. Honestly not the worst way to deal with having written an ending you really don't like.

 

[AwkwardMD]

@bothways123

Probably worth pinging them even if they don't know this forum is here. Just in case.

EDIT: ah shit Penny already did. Embarrassing.

 

[cw5523729]

I say, go for it!

Not that I think you should. But it's important to have a balanced discussion of your options option.

I'll bet you're the 1 out of 5 dentists that encourages you to not brush your teeth and eat sugary candy, aren't you?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Anyone is free to use any of my characters in any way they wish.

Many of them like to be used.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I knew that ID looked familiar.

 

[caleb35]

I'll bet you're the 1 out of 5 dentists that encourages you to not brush your teeth and eat sugary candy, aren't you?

The fifth dentist, who says that daily brushing isn't necessary: "Fuck them kids."