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BBM Fan Fiction Feels the Chilling Effects
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: moremojo on July 10, 2007, 05:08:35 pm ---I see a potential way around this problem (and Lord, I hope I'm not opening another legal can of worms here). But it seems to me that fanfic writers and readers could go off-line in their pursuits--literally, taking their work off the Internet and transposing it onto good old-fashioned paper with good old-fashioned ink. The resulting work could be shared, without monetary profit, via mail or through actual physical meetings. A kind of fanfic samizdat culture, if you will, could result. As long as nothing is actually being published commercially, and no one is making any money off of it, I don't see how it would me much of a problem to the copyright holders (or even, for that matter, how they would even come to know of it).
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That could certainly be an option, with the biggest challenge being communication. That is, (1) people knowing about your work and (2) exchanging addresses. #2 isn't always a problem but people are sometimes hesitant to give out home addresses to people they don't know well.
Printing is another challenge, although libraries can be an economical choice. Printers vary widely on how good a buy you can get on ink, but none of it's cheap.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on July 09, 2007, 11:27:15 am ---I saw a message from LawGoddess over the weekend. The policy is to forbid discussion of Cease and Desist orders and came from Dave.
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Sorry, I misunderstood your post; I thought you were claiming there was a ban on discussing fanfiction. The message specifically mentioned the copyright issues.
louisev:
right Marge,
That is the topic of this thread: the discussion of copyright issues. Discussion is allowed here - it is not allowed on Davecullen.com.
souxi:
Every time I click on this link for this story I get a message. Does this mean that this story has had to be taken down? I know she wrote an awful lot of stuff about Heath, most of it extreemly graphic.
http://niims.livejournal.com/25825.html
yb:
--- Quote from: souxi on July 13, 2007, 01:29:41 am ---Every time I click on this link for this story I get a message. Does this mean that this story has had to be taken down? I know she wrote an awful lot of stuff about Heath, most of it extreemly graphic.
http://niims.livejournal.com/25825.html
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souxi
niims has locked her journal. You'll have to ask her to friend you to access it.
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