Comment Re:Doojinshi and Corporate America (Score 1) 357
They absolutely do -not- fall under fair use. "Derivative works" the phrase of the discussion are the exclusive -right- of the copyright holder.
I do not have any right to produce a story about Hannibal Lecter, or Hannibal from the A-Team, or The Rock from WWE, because all of those characters were created by somebody, and their copyrights now owned (assuredly by somebody else).
I do not have any right to produce a story about Hannibal Lecter, or Hannibal from the A-Team, or The Rock from WWE, because all of those characters were created by somebody, and their copyrights now owned (assuredly by somebody else).