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Topic : Rights over a fanfic character not in the original work? I realize fan fiction and rights is a stupid question because you are picking up from where a creator has already traveled. But what - selfpublishingguru.com

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I realize fan fiction and rights is a stupid question because you are picking up from where a creator has already traveled.

But what about a fictional character I create while writing fan fiction?

In my case, I have extended the history of a favorite series much backwards and tried imagining how things began. In the process, I propped up a new character which is not a part of the original series.

Do I have a right over this new character I have created (partly) over someone else's storyline?

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YES. You have ownership rights over anything and everything you write. Just because you happened to wrote a work so derivitive it's unpublishable without express permission of someone else doesn't mean you lose your copyright; it just means that you can't do anything with what you wrote.

Literature is likely filled with characters who began within unpublishable fan-fiction that was never shared, who were latter extracted, distilled, and appeared in works with no relation to their original origin. You won't find any documentation on this, of course, since that might bring the whole matter into an ugly lawsuit, and no one wants that.

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