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Annie Proulx's still pissed...
louisev:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 05, 2010, 11:34:56 pm ---Heh. I remember the "ditto" machines the teachers used when I was in elementary school.
Loved the smell of those fresh copies. ;D
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omg the smell of ethyl alcohol in the morning!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 05, 2010, 10:28:24 pm ---Of course, fanfic has been around since long before the Internet. I was told the idea of "slash" fanfic goes back at least as far as stories about Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock in the Sixties.
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That's what I'd always heard was the origin of the name "slash."
Monika:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 05, 2010, 10:28:24 pm ---It was called Scarlett, and the author was Alexandra Ripley.
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aaahh... I remember watching the TV adaptation of it and kind of actually liking it. But probably mostly because it had some hot scenes between Timothy Dalton and Joanne Vhalley Kilmer in it 8)
It didn't bear much resemblance with its predecessor though.
Monika:
--- Quote from: louisev on March 05, 2010, 09:24:05 pm ---You are right about Peter Jackson regarding LOTR fanfics, but not so J.K. Rowling. In fact, Rowling was so belligerent about a tribute reference work entitled "The Harry Potter Lexicon" which was published with a claim of fair use, that she sued the publishers. She won the action, in a finding in New York that the Lexicon used too much of Rowling's work in its reference; and she was awarded a grand total of $6,750 in statutory damages. The year she won that action she made $300 million. Petty? You bet.
Woe be unto anyone who writes a Harry Potter fanfic.
Same with Anne Rice's works - she will sue anyone, at any time, under any circumstances, for daring to put about a fanfic about any of her works.
And Annie Proulx would also go into that category of aggressive pursuers of fanfic writers. Her lawyers went after me and at least three authors I know of with cease and desist letters. I dealt with it (I don't have $100,000 to prove adequate transformative fair use, nor did I want to) by withdrawing all fanfic pages from the Web, and subsequently modified all of the stories to remove any and all references to Brokeback or its characters. As far as I know, Anne Rice and Annie Proulx are among the top rank of aggressive pursuers of fanfic writers.
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When it comes to The Harry Potter Lexicon, I think Rowlins had a point (especially as she was working on something similar herself), and to me the lexicon wasn't fan fiction. To me, fan fiction, by definition is noncommercial.
I think it's a matter of intent. If the intent is to pay tribute, to want to contribute to the fandom, it's fanfiction. If the intent is to make money, then it's something else.
What would the BBM fandom be without fanfiction?
louisev:
--- Quote from: Buffymon on March 06, 2010, 03:22:19 am --- When it comes to The Harry Potter Lexicon, I think Rowlins had a point (especially as she was working on something similar herself), and to me the lexicon wasn't fan fiction. To me, fan fiction, by definition is noncommercial.
I think it's a matter of intent. If the intent is to pay tribute, to want to contribute to the fandom, it's fanfiction. If the intent is to make money, then it's something else.
What would the BBM fandom be without fanfiction?
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The intent of the Harry Potter Lexicon was to put into print a work that had developed online as the Harry Potter Lexicon Online, into a publishable form that those who did not have access to the online "Lexicon"could get to, and designed to pay tribute to the complex universe of Potterdom. Rowling herself had complimented Vander Ark on his work on the online "Lexicon" and there was no reason to believe she would take unkindly to his putting the online system into print - in fact, the lawsuit was a shock. It was said at the time she sued him, that she had gotten the idea of the Potter Encyclopedia FROM Vander Ark, and that her publishers pressed her into the lawsuit due to THEIR desire to capitalize on the work done on the "Lexicon."
There is very little merit in her stance in that suit considering her history of participation with and approval of the online website.
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