User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1506468-20190827123101/@comment-28743561-20190828000851

Amorkuz wrote: However, self-publishing remains fan fiction. ... I do not know any examples on this wiki of stories by a company formed to publish works of its owner.

Bill Baggs formed BBV Productions (aka "Bill & Ben Video") to produce his own DWU fanfilms. A number of these fanfilms that licenced character from their owner are valid on this wiki, inlcuding HOMEVID: When to Die which was writen, directed, and produced by Bill Baggs and released in 2015.

There used to be a safeguard: films were expensive to make, and one had to persuade a company to invest in their film. Nowadays, technology made film-making cheap and easy. Sound familiar?