I find it really interesting to see people's ideas of what they think qualifies as fanfic or not, but anything as simple as that flowchart just seems wrong by virtue of oversimplification. It also seems like many arguments for why an "official licensed work" is not fanfic really is just about being taken more seriously while fanfic can still be treated - socially - as less serious or intellectual. My sense is that most derivative works are going to be in a gray area, and then I'm oftem asking *why* (socially) folks want to separate out fanfic vs not fanfic for still-derivative works. Many derivative works will not be fanfic, of course, but that seems like a process better suited to case by case analysis and not sweeping generalizations. /notalitphd>