{"id":13347,"date":"2013-05-23T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13347"},"modified":"2013-05-23T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T20:43:16","slug":"fan-fiction-to-live-in-kindle-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13347","title":{"rendered":"Fan Fiction to live in Kindle Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Fan Fiction in Kindle Worlds\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/23\/technology\/amazon-fan-fiction\/?iid=HP_LN&amp;hpt=us_bn5\"><strong>CNNMoney<\/strong><\/a> reports on <strong>Amazon&#8217;s<\/strong> plan to monetize <strong>Fan Fiction<\/strong> via their new &#8220;<strong>Kindle Worlds<\/strong>&#8221; platform. It will be interesting to see if this works, or if it will become a legal nightmare as non-affiliated &#8220;writers&#8221; use copyrighted characters and story lines for their own ends.<\/p>\n<p>The idea &#8220;sounds&#8221; good, but it also has the familiar ring of <strong>Google&#8217;s<\/strong> constant\/ongoing\/infinite battles with copyright holders over their efforts to sell scanned <strong>Google Books<\/strong>. I cannot see this going smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNNMoney reports on Amazon&#8217;s plan to monetize Fan Fiction via their new &#8220;Kindle Worlds&#8221; platform. It will be interesting to see if this works, or if it will become a legal nightmare as non-affiliated &#8220;writers&#8221; use copyrighted characters and story lines for their own ends. The idea &#8220;sounds&#8221; good, but it also has the familiar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=13347\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13347"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13355,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions\/13355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}