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Generally, if based on popular copyrighted works written in the past 90 years, it's FanFiction, and must be totally non-profit, unless the owner of the original work gives you a contract. If your FanFic is wildly popular, then do what E. L. James did -- write a new book, the same thing really, but change the names, and set them in a different world -- her Twilight FanFic became Fifty Shades of Grey.

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