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Annie Proulx's still pissed...
injest:
Probably not. But I agree with that lawyer that there is a credible defense of the erotic stories that they are social commentary and serve as criticism
most moral people understand there are MANY things that are legal that are STILL rude and inconsiderate...and should not be done.
injest:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on May 05, 2009, 07:02:36 pm ---Copyright and other laws protecting inventions and intellectual properties exist for good reasons. Non-inventors may feel it's their right to capitalize on someone else's creativity and hard work, but that is a misguided perception. 'Exploring characters further' makes no sense; fanfiction is attempting to alter and reinvent characters it has no right to touch. If anyone wants to 'explore', read another book in which the character(s) is featured; if there are none, that is just unfortunate, and one is left to studying the original work itself.
Plus, the limited perusing of BM fanfiction I have seen is obviously attempts at making male-to-male sexual interests and situations more open and seedy...miles away from anything AP had in mind. For some reason, fanfiction writers appear to be titilated by the freedom to use words and situations previously somewhat taboo outside of closed circles; using situations they often know nothing about. To that I suspect AP would say "get over yourself" and leave my characters alone. And I agree with her.
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witness the orgasmic joy over the phrase "teabagging"...the giggly jr high "did you hear what that means!!"
I know I was turned off writing fan fic after reading some of the 'art' presented by others...
SFEnnisSF:
This isn't about which fan fic was this or that, right or wrong, etc. No one ever said anyone had to read anyone else's Fan Fiction. If you weren't interested in it, then simply don't read it.
This is about Annie getting some letters from a few folks who saw the movie "Brokeback Mountain" and then "critiqued" it. And now she goes on this tyrade about it with this blanket statment saying we all mis-interpreted it and we're all wrong and she now feels she shouldn't have written it?
Sorry Brad, but inmaturity (your word) goes both ways... When you talk down to your fans who were touched and moved by your work like that, you'll get it right back to ya. Call it what you want, it's human nature. Respectfullness can go a long way....
louisev:
I'm with Eric here, it is fruitless and disturbing to readers and fans for an author who has published and made a great deal of money off a publication to make a statement like wishing she never wrote it. But there have always been artists who have a love/hate relationship with their fans.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: louisev on May 05, 2009, 09:46:28 pm ---I'm with Eric here, it is fruitless and disturbing to readers and fans for an author who has published and made a great deal of money off a publication to make a statement like wishing she never wrote it. But there have always been artists who have a love/hate relationship with their fans.
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(Shrugs) Doesn't bother me in the least. As I've said already, my sympathies are all with Annie. I'm sure she had--or has--days when it seems like "Brokeback"/Brokeback has taken over her life, and she feels heartily sick of it. I understand the feeling and I don't hold it against her. But I agree, there always have been artists who have a love/hate relationship with their fans.
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