Well, I tried gettin back into Potions and Snitches to continue reading fanfiction, only to have a web site appear stating that the account was suspended. Anyone know if it's coming back online or the reason for why it was suspended?|||Fanfiction usually violates copyright. That's probably why the account was suspended.|||Actually Jessica, you're wrong. Fanfiction that is written for profit would be violation of copyright. But all non-profit fanfiction is protected under copyright Law. JK Rowling herself stated that she was flattered people would want to write stories about her characters.
"Fan fiction is a derivative work under United States copyright law.
Some argue that fan fiction does not fall under fair use. The 2009 ruling by United States District Court judge Deborah A. Batts, permanently prohibiting publication in the United States of a book by a Swedish writer whose protagonist is a 76-year-old version of Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye, may be seen as upholding this position regarding publishing fanfic, as the judge stated, "To the extent Defendants contend that 60 Years and the character of Mr. C direct parodic comment or criticism at Catcher or Holden Caulfield, as opposed to Salinger himself, the Court finds such contentions to be post-hoc rationalizations employed through vague generalizations about the alleged naivety of the original, rather than reasonably perceivable parody."
Others such as the Organization for Transformative Works uphold the legality of non-profit fan fiction under the fair use doctrine, as it is a creative, transformative process.
In recent years, several prominent authors have given their blessings to fanfiction, notably J.K. Rowling. Rowling said she was "flattered" that people wanted to write their own stories based on her characters. Similarly, Stephenie Meyer has put links on her website to fanfiction sites about her characters from the Twilight series.
However, Anne Rice has consistently and aggressively prevented fan fiction based on any of her characters (mostly those from her famous Interview with the Vampire and its sequels in The Vampire Chronicles). She, along with Anne McCaffrey and Raymond Feist, have asked to have any fiction related to their series removed from FanFiction.Net."
Taken from wikipedia|||In PotionsandSnitches@yahoogroups.com, "Tabitha" the moderator wrote:
We are working on fixing this problem as quickly as we can. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
If you haven't checked, it's back.|||All I can say is that "PotionsandSnitches" ISP account appears to be suspended, it is the whole website and not any specific user account.
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