Looks like Gj is going into its final throes. I was gonna try to private-lock everything there but I can't get past the database errors.
I'm wondering if I should get an AFF.net account for the smuts, or if I should just drag them to here. Again. I'm getting a little tired of moving them too.
I was reading the giant post on fanficrants-Lj about reasons to not join the Organization for TransformativeWank Works and realized that the ranter missed something:
OTW says that they envision a future where all fanfic is "legal." Lots of people get stuck on the "legal" bit--what do they mean, legal? That fanficcers can sell it? I'm gonna go for the "all fanfic" bit. I saw an author on the Dear Author site who found her entire book copied and pasted into someone's fanfic, with only the names changed. She said that as it was she had hell getting the admin to take it down, and that the plagiarist's fans gave her all kinds of hell for shutting down the c&p machine. Would this author have no recourse? The thing the plagiarist turned out was fanfic and would be "legal" by OTW's standards.
And what about the fanficcers who get hit by plagiarists? Does OTW think that's all right because it's fanfic of fanfic? Or that the work's okay because it's a "transformative" variation of the original? Hey, the plagiarists switched some spelling and sentence structure. Sometimes. Sort of. That means it's CHAAAANGED. And with plagiarist and plagiarist-defending Heidi Tandy as part of their legal team, these worries become very very valid.
Though I probably won't have to worry, anyway. It's not like the community's done anything besides stand around and posture (and talk about having people pay dues to be full members of their LIVEJOURNAL COMMUNITY). They want to have a wiki! but haven't started their own or tried to work with the thousands of pages of existing wiki. They want to have a super duper uberspecial fanfic archive! but haven't started their own, haven't taken into account the tons of archives that they'd be competing against, and haven't tried to work in with the most logical solution to scattered fanworks, fanworksfinder.com. They want to defend fanficcers! . . . but if it comes to legal mess, probably won't.
Bah.
I have a page of Cassie Edwards rant, four total pages of PWP, a mixing bowl full of unsealed dreads, about eighteen hair sticks in process, two hundred words of silly-fic, a revamped and retweaked other silly-fic, a WIP for a(n original) flash fiction contest, and most of a second chapter for the crit group. And I am still hideously behind in everything, and must be back at work in nineteen hours. Can't wait for vacation.
I'm wondering if I should get an AFF.net account for the smuts, or if I should just drag them to here. Again. I'm getting a little tired of moving them too.
I was reading the giant post on fanficrants-Lj about reasons to not join the Organization for Transformative
OTW says that they envision a future where all fanfic is "legal." Lots of people get stuck on the "legal" bit--what do they mean, legal? That fanficcers can sell it? I'm gonna go for the "all fanfic" bit. I saw an author on the Dear Author site who found her entire book copied and pasted into someone's fanfic, with only the names changed. She said that as it was she had hell getting the admin to take it down, and that the plagiarist's fans gave her all kinds of hell for shutting down the c&p machine. Would this author have no recourse? The thing the plagiarist turned out was fanfic and would be "legal" by OTW's standards.
And what about the fanficcers who get hit by plagiarists? Does OTW think that's all right because it's fanfic of fanfic? Or that the work's okay because it's a "transformative" variation of the original? Hey, the plagiarists switched some spelling and sentence structure. Sometimes. Sort of. That means it's CHAAAANGED. And with plagiarist and plagiarist-defending Heidi Tandy as part of their legal team, these worries become very very valid.
Though I probably won't have to worry, anyway. It's not like the community's done anything besides stand around and posture (and talk about having people pay dues to be full members of their LIVEJOURNAL COMMUNITY). They want to have a wiki! but haven't started their own or tried to work with the thousands of pages of existing wiki. They want to have a super duper uberspecial fanfic archive! but haven't started their own, haven't taken into account the tons of archives that they'd be competing against, and haven't tried to work in with the most logical solution to scattered fanworks, fanworksfinder.com. They want to defend fanficcers! . . . but if it comes to legal mess, probably won't.
Bah.
I have a page of Cassie Edwards rant, four total pages of PWP, a mixing bowl full of unsealed dreads, about eighteen hair sticks in process, two hundred words of silly-fic, a revamped and retweaked other silly-fic, a WIP for a(n original) flash fiction contest, and most of a second chapter for the crit group. And I am still hideously behind in everything, and must be back at work in nineteen hours. Can't wait for vacation.