We felt it was/is important to honor their requests. The legal situations regarding fan works has always been a grey area. Now, the legality of such requests is not really the issue.
Though, in at least one case, although the author allowed fan fiction the conditions they placed on that were not compatible with our own site posting rules. And by extension, any official derivative Works (Movies, TV Shows, etc). What’s a Rule 3? One of our many 'Posting Rules' It states: We will not archive stories that crossover with the following, or crossover with authorized derivative works based on the following (followed by a list of authors) But what does that mean? Many years ago, the TtH Management (aka The Founders & Mod Team) decided to honor the wishes of IP Creators (aka source material Authors) who did not want people to write fan fiction using their IP (Intellectual Property).