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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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I knew your name sounded familiar.
And yeah, for the time being I'm trying to play it safe and ask even if the author's say go ahead and archive. Mostly because I'm format shifting their works.
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::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.
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Gosh I hope mobileread.com doesn't host all of ff.net. That would be truly scary.