Re Imagination
“Transformative works create and uncover meaning and values by disrupting the barriers between diverse histories, traditions and genres to comment, parody, bolster, undermine and emphasise the cultural values of past, present and future” (Collins, 2015).
“Existing works can find themselves represented in ways never expressed, nor perhaps intended or explored by the original authors, such are the cultural lives of intellectual properties” (Coombe, 1998).
Although intellectually remixed works are the progeny of their parent work, the legal understanding of this relationship can be problematic, there hasn’t quite been a way discovered yet to define this relationship as each case is different.
Works based from pre existing books/movies/tv shows/characters are all extensions of the already existing story and are created for the love of it by fans, expanding these worlds with their imagination.
This type of work narrowly avoids being classed as copyright infringement under “Fair Use”. There is arguments against this by people claiming that it is in fact copyright and stealing the intellectual property of others. Advocates of fanfiction and the like disagree, claiming that they are only using the original works as a starting point and are creating their own works.
