Fanfiction in general is written for no pay, and distributed for free. The only times this is not the case are (to my knowledge):
* zines, which charge just enough money to recoup the cost of printing them (paper costs money), and * "authorized" fanworks (the Star Trek novels, etc.), which are published by the owners of the copyright, but take place in a different medium from the original work
Things that are generally classified as "fanfiction" are emphatically not done to make money or for profit.
All that aside, my original point stands. No one was talking about making money from fanfiction; therefore, the argument that Think all you want, but if you make money off of someone else's characters that is a problem. really has nothing to do with the question of whether anyone can or should be allowed to "say anything" (ie, discuss, review, recommend, summarize, quote, or... write fanfiction) about a work, outside the original author. Totally different arguments.
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* zines, which charge just enough money to recoup the cost of printing them (paper costs money), and
* "authorized" fanworks (the Star Trek novels, etc.), which are published by the owners of the copyright, but take place in a different medium from the original work
Things that are generally classified as "fanfiction" are emphatically not done to make money or for profit.
All that aside, my original point stands. No one was talking about making money from fanfiction; therefore, the argument that Think all you want, but if you make money off of someone else's characters that is a problem. really has nothing to do with the question of whether anyone can or should be allowed to "say anything" (ie, discuss, review, recommend, summarize, quote, or... write fanfiction) about a work, outside the original author. Totally different arguments.