My to-rec folder is once more overflooding so it's time for another link dump. Fic recs will probably be next. Or vids. Or both.

fanfic and copyright
jimhines: Marion Zimmer Bradley vs. Fanfiction - If we’re going to toss this story around every time we talk about fanfiction, it would be nice to have a few facts to go with the fourth-hand accounts, ( Read more... )

For everyone interested in issues of intellectual property law,
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I had to go all the way back to skip=400, and I'm caught up with the flist... though now my to-read folder is overflowing.

Writercon was excellent, I'm very glad I went. I finally met friendshipper. And sgatazmy and greyias. And pukajen, whom I just had dinner with a few days before at Comic Con. missmurchison and revdorothyl who graciously offered me a place to stay when the Minneapolis hostel turned ( Read more... )

comics and artwork:
have yet to contain anything you wouldn't encounter on the show.

Recs: ( details behind the cut )

There is a rather interesting post in life_wo_fanlib linking back to a FFR post that pimps a new multifandom fic / original fiction archive, fictionaire.com. It's a bit of a conundrum. I do like conundrums. ;)
( Ficionaire reminds of Fanlib in certain ways )

Written By The Victors by cesperanza
The fic that's eating fandom - the story of Atlantis' secession from Earth, told partly in the form of excerpts from historical texts as well as traditional narrative. Incredibly satisfying and complex, just go read! (if you haven't already; you probably have but I can't not mention it :) 55,000 words

Written By The ( Read more... )

(This is gonna be just a brief drive-by post with linkeage. The whole thing cost me so much time these past few days just following various threads... I shouldn't even be here, let alone post. It's like I can't avert my eyes.)

So, the FanLib debut went down smoothly as a load of gravel, unsurprisingly. It has finally made fandom_wank, and Making ( Read more... )

(I gotta get to work but this meta has been scratching at the inside of my head, wanting out.)

[edit: removed the direkt link to fanlib.com; no need to up their google ranking] The FanLib discussion has finally hit metafandom; tomorrow it should be all over LJ.

My first reaction when I read about it on fanthropology last week was: knee-jerk unease and skepticism. Now ( Read more... )

( Aaah, yes. Nothing like a little kerfuffle to clear the air. )

So, kradical, a pro writer who also writes tie-ins, wrote a post pointing out differences between fanfic and tie-ins. Personally I found the post perfectly unoffensive, reasonable and interesting, but as it happens when a pro writer as much as mentions the word 'fanfic', people are kneejerking in response all over LJ ( Read more... )