I've never started a campfire before, so I hope I do this right (and that this is okay.... it is FFA, right?).
Anyway... I was just fic diving in FFn and came across a Fic that I couldn't help but open up, just to check out, since I'm not a fan of MotU/50SoG and am always looking for a good parody:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7915393/1/50_Shades_Of_Malfoy
Summary: Summary: When literature student Hermione Granger is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Draco Malfoy for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating.
Yes, it's exactly what you think. MotU/50SoG rewritten with Harry Potter characters. Now... this isn't exactly a fic IMO. From what I can tell, it's an exact copy of the story, with just the character names replaced. So... just like what happened to make MotU "original" fiction, the only thing I can tell that was done was a find/replace of character names. Even the incorrect geography seems to remain in place.
Now... the author prefaces this story with an A/N (I'm copying it here):
A/N: This story is the work of E.L James and her trilogy 50 Shades of Grey. I recently read the books and thought that the original characters would do so well as Dramione. So this is not my work I'm just admiring someone else's great idea and using Draco and Hermione instead. Characters are OCC and follow EWE and A/U.
Disclaimer: This is the work of E.L James and I'm just borrowing her plot and J.K Rowling's characters. I make no money off this nor do I intend to it just for entertainment purposes.
That said, I'm left feeling very uncomfortable by this.
P2P issues aside (since that is the same author pulling their own fic and changing the name in order to publish as OF), is a simple find/replace of character names enough "change" to claim something as your own?
This just feels wrong to me. I know that I'd hate to find one of my B/E fics posted by someone else in another fandom with nothing more than the character names changed, even if credit was given (as this author did).
Thoughts?
(p.s. and guys... please don't flame this author. I'm really just curious to see a discussion concerning the ethics of posting fanfiction...)