Does Fan-Fiction ever become Fan-Reality?

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

So what happens if I were to say "hey, I wrote this fanfic a bit back, how about you take a look?". Are there any legal loopholes to keep them from considering something I already wrote and put on the internet? I'm just wondering if hosting anything in a website like fanfiction.net automatically voids that story from ever becoming something proffesional, even if the writer himself has managed to.

I don't know for every site, but as far as Fanfiction.net goes: The site is a reposaitory for fanfiction, sort of an indexing site, so while ff.net has the reserved rights to remove or edit your content (As it is hosted on thier site) when displayed through thier site, you still retain ownership of the writing.

What you CAN'T claim is copyright of the source material, being the comic/tv show/anime that you based your fanfic on.

If you want to have a clear and definitive answer, I would check both the sites you have posted fanfics at for thier user-agreements, as well as writing to Marvel/DC and try and get an answer from them.

I know that on some sites that retain dual-ownership of the media alongside the original author, that it would be much harder for marvel to use the fanfic, even though its technically thier own IP that is being used. I'm nowhere near a legal expert on this, but asking them versus us would be best should you run into something like this down the road.

Jam it back in, in the dark.