Stop trying to profit off of your fanfiction! I am genuinely so tired of this conversation coming up time and time again. If you go into writing fanfiction with the intention of making a profit, pack it up, buddy. You have every right to be proud of your work and deserve to have it recognized and seen by its intended audience, but your payment for writing fanfiction will be in the form of likes, shares, and positive comments, not money.
Even if you are taking personal requests, you can not profit from them. You should be writing fanfiction for your own personal love of it, and if you choose to post what you write, consider it an act of service to the fandom, not a lucrative business idea.
These characters do not belong to you; therefore, you are not allowed to profit from them. The only way for fanfiction to be legal is for it to be free because of fair use. You can only publish your writing and profit from it if it’s an original piece of writing. Yes, I am well aware that there have been cases of fanfiction being published, but more often than not, those stories have to go under major editing, name changes, location changes, etc.
So, for the love of the fanfiction gods, please stop trying to monetize your fanfiction! Not only will it not work in your favor, but none of us want to deal with the creators of the media we like to write fanfiction for, cracking down on the fanfiction community; it will suck for all of us, both readers and writers alike.
— Sincerely, Your Local Fanfiction Author & Reader
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