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Is filk considered fanfic?

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Is filk considered fanfic?
Post by Tararoys   » Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:27 pm

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And iif it's not, is filk appropriate to post here?
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Re: Is filk considered fanfic?
Post by roseandheather   » Sun Sep 20, 2015 8:35 am

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Tararoys wrote:And iif it's not, is filk appropriate to post here?


I honestly don't know, actually. I know a band called Echo's Children did a few Honorverse filk songs - "Fair Was the Blossom", "No Quarter", and "Riding a Tiger" - but I don't know if they needed special permission or anything to do it.
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Re: Is filk considered fanfic?
Post by EdThomas   » Sun Sep 20, 2015 10:38 am

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Shouldn't be somewhere else, like say, the Free Range forum?
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Re: Is filk considered fanfic?
Post by SWM   » Sun Sep 20, 2015 3:42 pm

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Fanfic would be creating new stories. So filk which created a new Safehold story would be a form of fanfic. But filk which simply recounted existing Safehold stories, or was merely generally about Safehold and the characters without telling a story, would not be fanfic.

But this is IMHO, and I'm not the one who would make the ultimate decision.
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