There is a thing called fair use which could possibly allow for fanfiction to exist, but there's some grey areas when it comes to fair use. But it is one of the reasons why sites such as Ranger Central exists.
Also when you're dealing with things published on the internet it becomes automatically copyrighted. So when you publish a webpage or send an email, that automatically is copyrighted and you do not have to go through the normal copyright process that you would for a film, song, book, etc.
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