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Jim's stand on fic?
Infamous as Elle!:
Oh yeah, never thought of it that way. Even though I think a majority of people would say that as the author's creation, it's their ball game, there would be some jerk out there trying to turn things around by saying the author was copying them. *sighs*
At least it's not fashion design. With fashion design, the only thing you can claim rights over, is material that has the name of the designer woven into the fabric. So there is free license on anything cool you can come up with to wear. Say you draw out this really funky original design on a coat and show it to your best friend or even put it up on the net. Your best friend could turn around and draw pretty much the exact same thing and claim it was their original idea. Worse, you could both make the same outfit and both could claim it as an orignal design. The only way you could say that it was definitely your pattern and exclusive to you is if you took that same coat and made it out of material that had your name all over it.
It's why it's so hard to bust people for knock offs. The only way the law can really crack down on them is if they copy the logo letter for letter. Which is why you'll see purses that look like Chanel but the C's on the purses are changed to turn inward instead or Disny instead of Disney apparel.
For me, I don't see any harm in someone going out and getting their own materials to make an outfit on their own that would be ridiculously out of their price range but I think it's wrong for those same people to start making copy after copy and then selling them to the mass market for a quarter of the price.
Starbeam:
There are also some authors who will allow fan fiction. But then they also have very strict guidelines for it and have a form you have to fill out for them to approve, and then it also basically says that they own the work. Mercedes Lackey did that, I don't know if she still does, and got the form from Marian Zimmer Bradley. While searching for Mercedes Lackey and finding that out, it looks like at least one fan fic she approved was actually published. I can see how using that form would be a good thing, because it keeps the person who wants to write the fan fic from changing the characters.
Kali:
Here's a link to one of the better articles written on the subject. Make sure you also read the notes at the bottom, they're interesting, too. There are quotes from popular authors, from fans, and from fanfic writers/readers.
Fan Fiction, Novels, Copyright, and Ethics by Michela Ecks
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: DragonFire on January 18, 2009, 11:42:53 PM ---yup, like Robert Jordan's last 3!!
--- End quote ---
Jordan had the whole series plan down before he started writing; the middle grew in the telling, but as I understand it there was never any doubt about there the end would be. So "holding pattern while he figured out where he was going" is not the failure mode there.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: DragonFire on January 19, 2009, 12:38:56 AM ---Yeah....not that the sex is bad...just that there's way too much and it seems, for any reason.
Oh, your son needs to be brought into his power?
He must need to screw Anita.
You need more power to take on your enemies....screw Anita.
Perhaps they should just advertise....."Need more metaphysical muscle? Try Screwing Anita"
--- End quote ---
I actually find this morally preferable to "Anita needs to have more interesting sex, so let's enable her to do it guilt-free by having horrible things happen to other people until and unless she does it", fwiw.
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