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otw_news2007-12-21 10:51 am
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- Fanfic Bingo!
Inspired by the discussion of OTW at John Scalzi's blog, Ithiliana, Half Elf Lost, Kitsune13, and Cofax7 created the Anti-Fanfic Bingo card.
They have kindly permitted the OTW to use the card, and we'd like to ask all of you to come up with responses for the objections to fan fiction. Serious responses, funny responses, rude responses, heart-felt responses. Prose, poetry, icons, banners, art, vids -- any response at all! We ask that you stay on topic, but our hope is to create something fun and, well, educational.
You can see the entire Anti-Fanfic Bingo card here, but right now, let's focus on the top row:
How would you respond? Tell ComRel!
Graphic by the wonderful Ciderpress.
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Community Relations Committee
They have kindly permitted the OTW to use the card, and we'd like to ask all of you to come up with responses for the objections to fan fiction. Serious responses, funny responses, rude responses, heart-felt responses. Prose, poetry, icons, banners, art, vids -- any response at all! We ask that you stay on topic, but our hope is to create something fun and, well, educational.
You can see the entire Anti-Fanfic Bingo card here, but right now, let's focus on the top row:
How would you respond? Tell ComRel!
Graphic by the wonderful Ciderpress.
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femmequixotic, bethbethbeth, ciderpress, bethbethbeth, mirabile_dictu, shrift, svmadelynCommunity Relations Committee
no subject
Surely you mean tortious (http://legionseagle.livejournal.com/13718.html).
no subject
And in the non-lawyer understanding of the term, meaning "against they law," they'd be correct. Civil laws are indeed laws; the fine distinctions used by lawyers are often ignored in casual conversation. And I *think* everyone involved knows you can't go to prison for copyright infringement. (I hope, anyway.)
And, of course, if it were clear-cut against any laws, civil or criminal, any lawyer could compose a single polite letter to FF.net, Yahoogroups, LiveJournal, or any other popular fic archive, saying "you are supporting lawbreaking; please to delete the accounts of these seven thousand users in accordance with your TOS." That this hasn't happened indicates that the laws in question are a lot more blurry than the anti-fanfic crowd wants to believe.
Certainly, if there were a widespread collection of communities that exchanged contact info and phone numbers and ages & pics of children not their own, for the purpose of contacting those children with the intent of seducing them--they'd damn well be shut down. Even if the groups insisted that they meant to seduce said kids after their 18th birthdays, which would hypothetically be legal.