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So fanon is a window into what alterations and additions to
canon largish groups of fans tend to invent, select, and
adopt as their own. One of my biggest interests re slash (as
well as fanfic in general) is where people derive their
reading pleasure, and fanon gives me a nice way to get at
that issue.
One of fanfiction’s largest problems is that of plagiarism. Apart from
whole stories being lifted, with only the author’s name changed, there is also a
subtler nuance to this problem. Recently, some people have been accused of
plagiarizing, but have been found to have done so by accident; their fics
display some elements of another story, or their characters seem to have been
taken from another author’s character-portrayal. Dinah reads fanfic, but
prefers to read them in fandoms she does not write for: Instead of reading HP
fanfic, she will read slash and gen (general) fic for Wolf’s Rain (a Japanese
anime – 2003) or Pirates of the Caribbean. She is “afraid of absorbing that
stuff, and putting it into [her] own and be accused of plagiarism.” She also is
aware of the rampant fanon character interpretations, which she attempts to
avoid, as she wants to use her own interpretation of the HP protagonists.
Interactive: Mel
Did you know that there is a specific group of people who
look for/investigate plagiarizing? PPP (Plagiarism Police Patrol)
started for anime-based fandoms, where there was a huge problem
with copy/paste plagiarism, and has since grown into two separate
groups, the PPP, and the PPP2 (non-anime fandoms). Plagiarism is
actually a bigger problem in fanfiction than most people realize.
Since nothing is officially copyrighted, there is not much a person
can do to protect his or her writings. It is up to the readers and the
community to spread the word and report problems like this to
archive moderators. PPP and PPP2 do this on a larger scale - they
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