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Originally Posted by Amalthia
And yeah, I started the ebook fan fiction archive back in May so far it's going okay. The hard part is getting permissions and converting the stories to RTF. (RTF is the one universal format that anyone can download and upload to their file converter of choice) The site has a good mix of Ipod, Kindle, Cybook, Ebookwise, and Sony PRS users.
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We should talk (I think we met at Escapade); I know some fanfic authors release their works under Creative Commons and don't need to be asked--but they don't always have a prominent statement about that near their fanfic.
::Note to self: point out to the OTW people that the
archive should have an easy link to copyright policies & a way to embed CC links in the story listings::
I suspect that, even if a definitive ruling came out in favor of fanfic's legality (i.e. Fox decides to sue Steven Brust for "My Own Kind of Freedom," and is squashed horribly, leading to a landmark ruling that use of copyrighted characters in a story is no different from use of their descriptions in a review), many online archives won't touch fanfic because of perceived quality issues and quantity-vs-interest problems--certainly Mobileread.com doesn't want to host all of ff.net in RTF format.