Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Fanfiction That Is Legal

Now I understand not everyone enjoys fanfics so just in case you are curious these are the charachters AND books you can write for. (You can do copyrighted ones like "Chronicles of Narnia" with permission if it is both name and plot and then their are some books that you never would have guessed were fanfics if they don't say they were and everyone's and the places names are changed). Anyways, that was off topic below are public domain books you and/or your family could publish with all of the names staying unchanged. "Gone With The Wind" if not for the 1990 act would have been in public domain a few years ago but since it isn't it's not included. I'm also including when they could have but didn't necessarily probably just so that they don't get into trouble. Works: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Though their are a lot of fanfics). If we are going by the fact of when they book was published the 1908 but since we do it for the authors life plus at least nintey-five years for anonymous people it would actually be 1912 for this, "Emma", "Sense and Sensibility", "Persuasion", "Mansfield Park" and "Northanger Abbey". Fact: If you look these up then her unfinished works you will notice that their are at least 600+ fanfics meanwhile if you look at "Sandition" and "The Watsons" on LibraryThing (which I don't know how trustworthy it is) they only have around 100 and 52 respectively and those two were unfinished. Charolette Bronte and her sisters are a few other examples. Little House On The Praire (Before the TV Show unless otherwise stated by someone else). Emmuska Ozcry's work. 1840 or before for Johnathan Swift. So anything before 1936 or 1938 is in public domain unless stated by the author when you Google them and if you see fanfics published it is definitely safe to do so yourself.

Fanfiction That Is Legal

Now I understand not everyone enjoys fanfics so just in case you are curious these are the charachters AND books you can write for. (You can...