I don't see a problem with 3rd party sellers selling fanzines as collectibles at whatever cost they think the market would bear. These were allowed/ignored for years by DCP and are now being sold as second hand collectible boooks. I would see a problem if someone were reprinting them and selling them. That would violate the DS copyright AND Kathy's and her contributors. Having said that, $125?? That is INSANE!!!

Borgosi, for what it's worth, my definition of a fan story is one that is done primarily for the love of the show. Money may change hands, but they are usually at cost ventures; no profit is made. If I were hired by Big Finish to write a DS script, I would be a fan, but I would be writing as part of an assignment approved by the owners of the copyrights. In my definition, that's not fan fiction. It's a professional piece of licensed workwritten by someone who happens to be a fan.

I don't know for a fact that it's not sanctioned. You are correct MB; when I heard about the 91 soundtrack, I wondered if it was a "fan project" or bootleg. I was accustomed to hearing about projects in advance. It could be legit.

I suppose it depends on how you define honesty. I'm known for keeping my word. I generally call them as I see them, and I have little regard for corporate America. I have nothing against making an honest profit, but I have seen all to clearly who coporations and big business exploit and degrade artists. I won't give a name, but I have a friend who receives no royalties from her records she worked on in the 80s.   Her work has been issued, reissued, remastered, compiled etc etc. Corporations make big dollars on artistic works and often pay the artist very little by having them sign deceptive contracts and using creative accounting.  She wholeheartedly approves the bootlegging of her own works. 

I have bought Fleetwood Mac's Rumours on LP, 8 Track, cassette, CD, DVD audio, and the double CD. Warner Reprise executives were concerned recently that people are "stealing from them" by "ripping MP3s of their CDs for their IPods."  Mick and Co. made their fortune from that record and the Warner Reprise fatcats are still milking it. Now they want to tell me that I can't use my own CD in any way I wish? It's this kind of greed that leads people to rip them off.
On the whole, I abhor bootlegging movies. I buy them very rarely, and I ALWAYS buy the professonal DVD when it comes out. I've probably bought 3 in the last 5 years. Star Trek was the last one. I have the DVD of the film. I think Hollywood will survive if I ONLY watch it 3 times, drag a group of 5 to it, see it in the 2nd run theater,  and buy the DVD.

Ask around fandom about me. I think  you will hear that I'm generous and my word is good.  The name is Joe Escobar.  If you want to label me dishonest, I can live with that. The opinion of a stranger means little to me when I have the good opinions of friends I've made over the last 30 years. Post whatever you want in answer to this, I've said all that I plan to say about this.  If you want to discuss a campaign to save the Web Series, that's a different story.

While I find this topic interesting and engaging, wouldn't it be more to the point to concentrate on what we can do to save the DS Web Series?  It's a longshot, but perhaps a letter campaign, a SNAIL MAIL mountain, would be effective.  Is there somewhere we can write to the estate of Dan Curtis?  I recommend respectful letters that concede their right to shut it down but ask humbly that they generously reconsder.  One could also point out all the other franchises that have video projects associated with them.  If someone has an address, I'll shoot off a letter Monday.

It's often hard to gauge exact meaning on the internet. My first sentence was intended to be taken literally. It was not a criticism of anyone's point of view on the topic of plagiarism or intellectual property rights.

I have some PDFs I can send out if you email me privately.

Slightly off topic, but I'd heard that Margaret Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before she became famous as a certain witch from Oz. I always wondered what her kids thought of her.