Anti-fanfic Bingo, redux

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

All right! Our first round of Anti-Fanfic Bingo went beautifully, and we have plans for your responses, but let's move on to the second row of the card:



How would you respond to these accusations? Just like last time, please tell ComRel!

Graphic by the wonderful Ciderpress.

Ithiliana's post that started it all is here.

-- femmequixotic, bethbethbeth, ciderpress, mirabile_dictu, shrift, svmadelyn
Community Relations Committee

Comments

[starry-diadem.livejournal.com]

It's a waste of time you should be learning how to become a real writer!
Real as opposed to what? Believe me, I look in the mirror at my all-too-substantial form and I am as real as you get. I am a real writer; I just don't write for publication.


It's totally different if the author is dead!
And can't have a personal reaction to the fanfic you mean? So the reason live authors can't have fanfic written on their work is because it hurts their feelings? Great intellectual argument there.

Otherwise it's a nonsense. If you believe that there's some legal argument at work here, that copyright prohibits fanfic, then it doesn't matter whether or not the original copyright-holder is breathing or six-feet under. We'd just argue fair use, originator living or dead.


how would you feel if someone wrote fanfic about your story
It happened to me twice over the same story sequence. On the whole I was flattered. It meant that I'd written something that resonated with its readers, that had provoked a response in them, that had enough emotional punch for them to want to continue playing. Cool.


It's like you came to my house and stole my car!
Rolls eyes. In what way is it theft? In what way are you materially harmed? It's not like people will pay for my fics rather than buy the original source material. If anything, we prolong the life of the source and improve your income from it.


You have to think of the children!
Er, no. I don't. It is not my responsibility to self-censor to protect your children. I don't write for children. I don't post where children should see it. It's your responsibility to monitor your children's on-line activities, and I flatly refuse to allow you to shuffle that responsibility off on to me.