Why Heather can Write: Media Literacy and the Harry Potter Wars
Before reading this article, I was unaware of anything related to fan fiction. I learned people may write fan fiction for therapeutic reasons or maybe just for fun and to use their imagination. Jenkins writes about the Potter wars, which involved two problems. Companies wanted to ban access to books containing material around magic and wizards, and they also didn't want people to write fan fiction because they wanted to preserve the author's rights and ownership of the characters. I learned that this deal with a lot of disagreements involving freedom of speech. It's off how a parody of something can be legal while fan fiction can be illegal? I think as long as you are not making money off of someone else's work, then you should be able to write whatever stories you want involving the author's characters. It is a way to be creative.
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