Is there any published "literary" fic based on a source material still under copyright? All the ones I can think of are riffing on public domain material, which obviously makes a huge difference when you're trying to get paid for it.
That would be a huge factor in modern extrapolations.
Of course Shakespeare was incorporating existing stories. Three Penny Opera and Sweeney Todd are both the umpteenth retelling of their stories. I've heard Arlo Guthrie and other musicians joke about "the folk process" being what they just
do
and other folks would consider "stealing". So there are lots of examples of artistic midrash (if you will).
I think I'm going to go with "published for sale" v. "distributed for free among friends/peers" for the not-bright line distinction between other adaptive stories and current fan fiction.
I feel certain that Panic! at the Disco would be pleased that this is the conversation that arose out of asking who the hell they were.
Hmmmm. I can think of a book that I liked that was fic of the Bible: The Red Tent. Does that count?
And now I am off to driving in traffic to meet book group to talk about my faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave: Catch-22, which is not fic. That I know of.
If they're fic, they can't be canon, right? So yeah, I vote we count them as unfuckingbelievably bad fanfic.
That just seems right, doesn't it?
Fuuuuuuck. Brown is winning.
there was also "The Wind Done Gone" from the POV of the slaves/freed slaves, right?
That was ruled to be satire in the copyright case brought by MItchell's heirs.
Love The Red Tent.
You know who would know the proper literary term to use? T-Rex. He could illustrate it for us amusingly by conversing with his dinosaur friends, and perhaps a tiny elephant.
Whoa, okay. I just caught up on the whole bandom-adjacent mess that I think Jilli mentioned earlier, and it does not surprise me that band involved was All Time Low. Their fans are craxy to the max.
That's funny -- the only thing I know about that band is they are my coworker's daughter's favorite, and she (coworker) randomly had a drink with the lead singer once when she took her daughter to a show. She didn't know who he was until after.
