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A young family friend has published several works of fan fiction on sites devoted to Harry Potter, Firefly, and The Lord of the Rings. Recently, he was quite upset to find that another young writer had taken a story he had written and created a sequel to it that used many of the characters, plot lines, and unique elements that he had created.

When he sent the site’s administrator a request to have the story taken down because it infringed on his original work, the administrator said, “It’s fan fiction — it isn’t plagiarism, because you don’t own it.” A direct message to the second author was more productive, and resulted in a credit for the original author and a link to his story, along with an apologetic disclaimer.

The fan fiction site was correct when it told the original author that he didn’t hold copyright to his story — and the author was equally correct when he told the second writer that borrowing from his work for a new story was plagiarism. A work need not qualify for copyright in order to qualify for plagiarism protection.