pianofights-deactivated20180904
asked:
I've seen a number of Marvel writers say they can't read fan fiction for legal reasons which I understand but I was wondering why fan art seems to be exempt from that? Surely in such a visual medium there's not much difference between someone drawing something and someone writing about it?
The short answer is, “Sure there is.” A drawing of Spider-Man, say, isn’t the expression of a particular specific story idea in the same way that a fan fiction story is. If you were talking about somebody drawing out that story as a Spider-Man strip, there might be–but that’d be a rights violation in any event, were it to be published somewhere.