Concerning Fanfiction

[francescacoppa.livejournal.com]

Mercedes Lackey has announced the following on her blog:

News: Concerning Fanfiction:

As you folks already know, my agent, Russel Galen, has in the past been opposed to fanfiction. However, he is also Cory Doctorow's agent now, and Cory is a persuasive little gnome.

As a result of this, I am happy to announce that we are officially permitting fanfiction to be licensed as derivative fiction under the Creative Commons umbrella...

Thanks, Cory, for helping Mercedes and her agent recognize that fans' reaction to works can (and already do!) legitimately include creative responses. We don't think we need her permission, but we're always happy to have her blessing--and as fans of hers, we're happy that she's happy! :)

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Comments

[shinetheway.livejournal.com]

[giggles]

This tickles me greatly. My only experience with authors and fanfic was probably ten years ago when an author [cough] Lynn Flewelling actually JOINED the email listserve I was running, that had "fanfic" in the actual name of the list, and posted about how happy she was to be there. Then she freaked out when someone me actually, you know, posted a story. She sent a C&D and basically killed the list.

Between this and Edgar Wright writing Hot Fuzz slash on Twitter, I think maybe TPTB are finally, finally getting it.

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

That was YOUR list? I remember that! (And always curse the lack of fiction for that series - I mean, it was so ripe for it! And some of it was so GOOD.)

[badkarma-one.livejournal.com]

What part of the word 'fanfic' didn't she get?