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Fan Art and Fan Fiction are amazing ways to participate with a character, novel, film, television series, comic or even music artists and their songs. And, pretty much everything that fan art references is a copyrighted work. So, fan art starts its life as a “derivative” work of the copyrighted original and, as a result, technically fan art is copyright infringement. It can also be a violation of trademark law and sometimes the actor’s rights of publicity if they are well represented in the