Fanfiction

[victor steinbok]

The OED has citations going back to 1944 Fancyclopedia

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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:14 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A follow up on "fanboy". Several law blogs got into a discussion of
> "fan fiction". There is already a Wiki entry:
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>> Fan fiction (alternately referred to as fanfiction, fanfic, FF, or fic) is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator. Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they are almost never professionally published. Fan fiction, therefore, is defined by being both related to its subject's canonical fictional universe and simultaneously existing outside the canon of that universe.
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