07-02-2012, 01:58 PM | #31 | |
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Fanfiction is proof that people will write and distribute stories even without the prospect of monetary compensation.
I don't get the attitude of the article in the OP: Quote:
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07-02-2012, 02:39 PM | #32 |
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Because the fan fiction writer is a leech, a parasite, a blood-sucker, feeding from the creativity of someone else. If somebody wants to be an author, let them create their own worlds, not steal somebody else's.
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Fan fiction as a genre is entirely open about the fact that it is not original, that it builds on the work of others. I'd be more concerned about things like plagiarism and the fact that established authors can get any old garbage published (try reading Michael Crichton's Micro as an example of both). |
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No; that's the reason we have copyright law, which prohibits someone from simply taking someone else's book and writing a sequel to it. And that's precisely what these fan fiction authors are doing, in blatent disregard for the law.
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A lot of emotive words here. You are not living up to your own standard that you try to impose to others that is the standard not to use emotive words.
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07-02-2012, 03:04 PM | #36 |
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Nonsense. The fanfic writer, far from being a leech, is the most devoted customer of the original material. When you eliminate a parasite, you're in a better position, healthier and stronger. A tapeworm takes but gives nothing back, you will be healthier when it is gone. But drive out the fanfic writer and reader, and you're worse off, because you're driving off your most devoted customers. I haven't read fan fiction in quite some time. If someone wants to drive out the fanfic writers, it's petty, but they are free to do so.
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So since there is no court decision why do you call people "leeches" and "blod suckers" and so on? Since you do not know the courts view and that is the only thing that matters I do not get were you get your opinions from here.
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Which part do you disagree with, Tommy? That fan fiction is a derived work, or that derived works are illegal?
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07-02-2012, 03:14 PM | #39 |
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When an author agrees with HarryT about fanfic, most fan ficcers respect that and don't write (or at least publish) in that universe. A lot of authors see the fan fic as the homage it is, and don't mind... but are careful themselves not to read any of the fan fic least they inadvertantly steal an idea from the fic. (Wasn't there an issue with Marion Zimmer Bradley about that?)
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If fanfic writers are "leeches, parasites and blood-suckers" then they are still leeches, parasites and blood-suckers even if the original creator doesn't object to people writing fanfic, because even if they have permission, they are still fanfic writers. If they are hired to right a derivative work, such as writing a Star Trek novel, is that uncreative? The legal status doesn't make it more or less uncreative.
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The issue certainly arose with Michael St...ski (I can't spell it!), the creator of the SF series "Babylon 5", when a fan claimed that he'd taken an idea for an episode from a posting made on a Usenet newsgroup, I recall.
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