How does fanfiction copyright shit work when writers convert

>>17852110
I can't tell anymore, is this a joke?

50 shades of grey wasn't fanfic...

>>17852198
>50 shades of grey wasn't fanfic...
It got its start that way, if you can believe it. Twilight fanfiction, no less. Fortunately for the author, its sheer shittiness actually provided it a certain degree of legal protection: nobody wanted to dignify it with a court case.

Fanfiction in itself gives rise to copyright. I don't know much about 50 Shades, but if the original fanfiction and the published books are different, then she has copyright in both of them.

50 shades had zero relation to the teilight characters. I read out of curiosity and literally you could replace the names with jane and bob and nobody would know it was about twilight.no identifying descriptions or anything. She probably changed some things to make it more different but, if nobody can tell the relation of the characters to copyright, they're not gonna sue you.

>>17852110


the instruments of the immortal bones was harry potter fanfiction.

you can take your fanfiction and change enough names and places that it becomes an original work. the issue with copyright is how much it still uses from the original.

fifty shades of grey used nothing from the original except for the description of the characters looks, and a tiny bit of the personalities (but even then it was fanficized). the reason fifty shades couldn't get sued was because nothing they used belonged to twilight. there was no wolves, no vampires.

someone just wrote a story about bella getting fucked BDSM style and someone said 'hey publish this if you change X Y and Z'

instruments of the immortal bones was similar, but not sex. instead they changed the characters, and removed hogwarts, and had their own rules for magic. i havent seen / read it so i dont know how much changed.

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>>17853366
>mfw finding out part of Immortal Bones was originally an incest HP fic
Can't believe it got a movie adaptation (that flopped) and is getting a TV series.

And yeah, as long as everything is unrecognizable from the initial inspiration, you're good to go, copyright wise. The average alternate universe fanfic is too heavily divorced from the source material for anyone to sue you if the names are changed. Just make sure to scrub it of any reference to the original source.