Question about IP
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 2:33 pm
Hello everyone.
I have a problem I'm not sure how should I cope with.
I'm currently writing a HE/DE fanfic (unlucky, in my native so I can't post it there - I don't feel good enough in English). I'll be honest, I'm proud of my work, which is long, complex and rather ambitious. I used many ideas and my - now - novel is so long and took so much work from me, that I came to a conclusion, that I would like to get a reward.
But, there is a problem. GW no more supports WFRP setting, and my story is definitely in the universe from before AoS. I even wrote to them to make it sure, and they confirmed what I suspected.
And now... I don't expect any financial benefits from my writing. I love setting, and writing about WFRP was great pleasure and adventure, and I'd gladly publish it non-profit, but there's another point in GW's IP policy which bothers me.
It's about professional distribution. Tbh, I won't be pleased with simply publishing it on some fanfiction page. I won't deny, that I want to reach to some wider spectrum of readers, and was planning something like publishing non-profit ebook, but it seems that GW banes even that, allowing me to publish it only for few. Do I understand it well? Is that point preventing me from publishing my story, even non-profit, as an ebook or something similar?
My second thought was to make extremely similar, but rather parallel universe instead of literally WFRP. You know, to change geographical names, historical names and some facts, titles etc., but... I wonder if it protects me from allegations of plagiarism. My story contains 80% of original characters (I used only Teclis and Phoenix King as non-OCs) and not much of fluff, but I still fear that something like "elven kingdom on an island, in constant state of war with other elven kingdom on the cold-climate continent in west" will also be protected by GW's IP. And hell, I simply don't like the idea of creating imitation, but it seems, that if I want my story be published and widely available, it's best way to achieve it.
What would you do? I put great effort in my novel, not to make it another "Adventures of my character from RPG session" type of short, and now I want to be able to show it to some wider audience and - maybe - be noticed.
PS. I wrote just to BL. Maybe I shoud write to licenses guys and try my luck there? What do you think?
I have a problem I'm not sure how should I cope with.
I'm currently writing a HE/DE fanfic (unlucky, in my native so I can't post it there - I don't feel good enough in English). I'll be honest, I'm proud of my work, which is long, complex and rather ambitious. I used many ideas and my - now - novel is so long and took so much work from me, that I came to a conclusion, that I would like to get a reward.
But, there is a problem. GW no more supports WFRP setting, and my story is definitely in the universe from before AoS. I even wrote to them to make it sure, and they confirmed what I suspected.
And now... I don't expect any financial benefits from my writing. I love setting, and writing about WFRP was great pleasure and adventure, and I'd gladly publish it non-profit, but there's another point in GW's IP policy which bothers me.
It's about professional distribution. Tbh, I won't be pleased with simply publishing it on some fanfiction page. I won't deny, that I want to reach to some wider spectrum of readers, and was planning something like publishing non-profit ebook, but it seems that GW banes even that, allowing me to publish it only for few. Do I understand it well? Is that point preventing me from publishing my story, even non-profit, as an ebook or something similar?
My second thought was to make extremely similar, but rather parallel universe instead of literally WFRP. You know, to change geographical names, historical names and some facts, titles etc., but... I wonder if it protects me from allegations of plagiarism. My story contains 80% of original characters (I used only Teclis and Phoenix King as non-OCs) and not much of fluff, but I still fear that something like "elven kingdom on an island, in constant state of war with other elven kingdom on the cold-climate continent in west" will also be protected by GW's IP. And hell, I simply don't like the idea of creating imitation, but it seems, that if I want my story be published and widely available, it's best way to achieve it.
What would you do? I put great effort in my novel, not to make it another "Adventures of my character from RPG session" type of short, and now I want to be able to show it to some wider audience and - maybe - be noticed.
PS. I wrote just to BL. Maybe I shoud write to licenses guys and try my luck there? What do you think?