Would printing a story someone else wrote and changing it a bit be legal?

Question

I read a really good fanfiction story recently and wanted to have it made into a book on one of those book-printing sites, like lulu.com. I would only make one copy for my own personal use. I might also change the charactes and plot around a little, would this be legal? I was planning on not putting an author, obviously not crediting myself as the author. If changing it isn't legal, would just printing it out and not putting an author's name be legal?

Answer 1

No,not legal at all.



The original author owns the intellectual copyright to the story,and the idea for the story.



You need their permission to make any kind of copy.

Answer 2

My professors always told me that even if you change something a little from the original source material that it's plagiarism!

Answer 3

There are fine lines here....For example, the movie 'Forbidden Planet' is a version of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', but it's not considered plagiarism. 'Outland', starring Sean Connery, is 'High Noon' in a space setting, but it's not considered plagiarism.



However, the above answers are essentially right.

Answer 4

Yep. That is still plagiarism.