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Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books (www.404media.co)

Etsy sellers are turning free fanfiction into printed and bound physical books, and listing them for sale on online marketplaces for more than $100 per book. It’s a problem that’s rattling the authors of those fanfics, as well as their fans and readers....

bbb ,

there’s no fair use/dealings defence of them.

The OTW, who run AO3, would disagree with you: https://www.transformativeworks.org/faq/#faq-WhydoestheOTWbelievethattransformativeworksarelegal

That said, I'm not sure why they say 'transformative works are legal' rather than 'transformative works are sometimes legal and we believe noncommercial, transformative fanworks are legal but no one has actually tested it in court and it's unspecified in the legislation'.

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