Editing Mercedes Lackey (section)

===Stance on fanfiction===
Despite getting her own start as a fanfiction author, she and her agent forbade fan fiction based on her own books for many years, whether distributed offline or online. Lackey stated on her website<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mercedeslackey.com/am_conventions.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128153334/http://www.mercedeslackey.com/am_conventions.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 28, 2013 |title=Mercedes Lackey Official Website, Ask Misty |publisher=Mercedeslackey.com |access-date=2012-09-13 }}</ref> that this was due to the 1992 Marion Zimmer Bradley fan fiction affair, when a fan accused Bradley of copying the fan's work, and demanded writing credit and remuneration.<ref>{{cite web|author=Joseph C. McKenzie |url=http://www.fanworks.org/writersresource/?tool=fanpolicy&action=define&authorid=53 |title=Fanworks, Marion Zimmer Bradley |publisher=Fanworks.org |access-date=2012-09-13| url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603071925/http://www.fanworks.org/writersresource/?tool=fanpolicy&action=define&authorid=53 | archive-date=June 3, 2013}}</ref> After several years, Lackey's policy permitted offline fanfic, but only if the author got a release form from Mercedes Lackey that said the author acknowledged that they were using characters that belong to Mercedes Lackey and that the author's work essentially became Mercedes Lackey's property to prevent "infringing on my right to make a living from my own imagination". As of 2009 this policy changed, permitting fan fiction to be licensed as derivative fiction under the [[Creative Commons]] umbrella.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mercedeslackey.com/news.html |title='News' at author's website |publisher=Mercedeslackey.com |access-date=2012-09-13 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Excerpt from the interview in the November 2010 issue of Locus Magazine |url=https://locusmag.com/2010/11/mercedes-lackey-making-fun/ |website=locusmag.com |date=10 November 2010 |access-date=4 June 2023}}</ref>