The Boy Who Lived Forever - статья, которую я не прочитала полгода назад, о чем жалею)
Журнал Time пишет о феномене фанфикшена. Так, как пишут умные люди, а не считающие себя умными люди, вы-знаете-о-ком-я.
"Rowling and Stephenie Meyer have given Harry Potter and Twilight fan fiction their blessing; if anything, fan fiction has acted as a viral marketing agent for their work"

"Cutting, pasting, sampling, remixing and mashing up have become mainstream modes of cultural expression, and fan fiction is part of that. It challenges just about everything we thought we knew about art and creativity"

Naomi Novik, whose Temeraire novels are best sellers and have been optioned by Peter Jackson, who directed the Lord of the Rings movies, writes fan fiction. "Fanfic writing isn't work, it's joyful play," she says. "The problem is that for most people, any kind of writing looks like work to them, so they get confused why anyone would want to write fanfic instead of original professional material, even though they don't have any problem understanding why someone would want to mess around on a guitar playing Simon and Garfunkel."

И много других вкусных цитат, касающихся законности и этики, восприятия соверемнными зрителями культурного продукта, упоминания романтического образа индивидуального гения и поздней капиталистической концепции интеллектуальной собственности, права на владения людьми, выдуманными или нет, и т.д...
Хотя вы все, наверное, уже давно это прочитали.