Fic by permission

[rachelmanija]

The introduction I wrote for Project Blue Rose: Human Touch invites fans of the series to feel free to write fic for it, should they so desire, as long as they don't try to profit from it without my permission, use my characters without crediting me, or sue me. I have noticed that other individual authors have explicitly invited or given permission

Comments

[paper_legends]

Well, not exactly fic by fans, but by creative staff who worked on the Highlander TV series but are not professional writers; they gained permission (or were approached) by the copyright holders to make the book:

In one of the year's most unusual media tie-in events, the cast, crew and writers of a smash-hit TV series turn their creative talents to writing original fiction based on their own show.The show is television's popular Highlander series. And these are the stories that have remained untold until now: character histories by the actors who play them...spin-offs of favorite episodes...plots that exist only in the producer's imagination. These all-new adventures of Duncan MacLeod and the Immortals offer a once-in-a-lifetime look inside the minds of the people who know Highlander best-because they created Highlander

[thistleingrey]

The nearest thing I've seen isn't very, insofar as it's not "major publishing house" but the authors themselves: policy, linked from the site sidebar for Shadow Unit.