I was just wondering if someone could or was allowed to finish stories from lordshipmayhem, who passed away a few years ago. I loved his storytelling and wished he had finished the stories in his new world universe before he died. How he wrote an interesting story without erotica made me enjoy the story more than some of the other stories I have read. That is my opinion anyway.
Hi there!
Did you ever got an answer to your question? If not, I believe SOL Webmaster could be of help. I personally don't see any problem, as long as you credit the original author.
Regards
Jody.
It is iffy because of copyright to the original author.
I think in the fine print of this site, authors give away partial rights allowing the site owners/web master to allow it, in limited options.
I think in the fine print of this site, authors give away partial rights allowing the site owners/web master to allow it, in limited options.
I think in some cases an author could write fan fiction that might extend storylines.
I know at least a couple of cases where the estate of deceased authors have encouraged authors to try to continue stories those authors were writing at the time of death.
The authors and/or their estates have that option to give permission, since they control the copyright or it is in the public domain. I believe I heard that the Nancy Drew stories just came into the public domain (hint, hint).
The authors and/or their estates have that option to give permission, since they control the copyright or it is in the public domain. I believe I heard that the Nancy Drew stories just came into the public domain (hint, hint).
Only the first four books of the Nancy Drew detective series totaling 620 stories
The actual total is 202 books published between 1930 and 2003. They started to revise/rewrite the books in 1959 and continued until 1975. So watch the dates. If it is 60 years for public domain, only the first 4 books are public. With the rewrite, the copyright begins again. The rights to the name, Nancy Drew, still belonged to the Stratemeyer family until 1986 when the rights were sold to Simon & Schuster.
It would most likely end in disappointment. Anyone who wants to continue a story or add to it as fan fiction is very unlikely to be able to adequately duplicate the style and voice of the original author.
When doing editing work, I could manage to pull it off for about a paragraph, but no more.
ETA Perhaps when AI is fit for purpose, it might provide a solution. AIs can already reproduce styles (which is bad news for extant authors).
AJ
ETA Perhaps when AI is fit for purpose, it might provide a solution. AIs can already reproduce styles (which is bad news for extant authors).
How can AI know of the ending the original author had in mind? AI will cobble together popular plot elements, but nothing that can come close to the story that was originally planned.
I would love to see Mack the Knife's 'Murder Isle' finished, but not with an ending that reads like a mash-up of his other stories.
How can AI know of the ending the original author had in mind?
Probably not relevant to most of the SOL authors at issue here, but if the author had an outline or other documented plan for the story, that could be fed into an AI.
How can AI know of the ending the original author had in mind?
How can anyone (ouija board users excepted)? The AI operator is at just a big disadvantage as any traditional author attempting the same feat.
If the AI is trained purely on the stories of the deceased, I would expect the result to be terrible.
In aroslav's latest chapter (51) of Forever Yours, he raises the opposite scenario, where an AI produces something that could never have been said by the person whose style it's copying.
I would love to see Mack the Knife's 'Murder Isle' finished
Me too, but it's a trade-off. What would be less jarring, an ending that's similar to a previous Mack the Knife story, or an ending that Mack the Knife would never have written?
IMO, there's no perfect answer.
AJ