Originally posted online as a riff on the Twilight fan-fiction series Masters of the Universe, the story soon got picked up as an eBook, spawned two sequels and sold over a quarter of a million copies online.
Because the law focuses on the making of copies, it has become embroiled in regulating a bewildering array of non-commercial activities fan fiction, amateur mash-ups, BitTorrent file-sharing that have sprung up online.