Re: Hello and Congratulations!lost_erizoSeptember 6 2006, 01:47:15 UTC
Do you know that you are my hero? The wind beneath my wings? :)
*blushes*
Thank you :-)
Yeah, Mr. Goldberg doesn't have a lot of room to talk about "creativity" does he?
I think he may actually be right about the legality of it - although it's never really been tested and from what I've read (secondary sources - I'm a scientist not a lawyer) the courts have been increasingly lenient towards derivative work (as opposed to outright copying, which has become a hot button issue with the internet). But I got into it because of the ethical issue. As a practical issue I don't think that anyone can control fanfic - there's too much of it, almost all of it's written under pseudonyms and if theres a major crackdown people will just start hosting it on overseas servers. So it becomes up to the fans to self-police and decide if their actions are defensible.
Besides, it drives me nuts when people spout off about legalities without asking what the law was meant to do. That just leads to circular arguments and people who justify abhorrent behavior because the letter of the law allows it (even if it means they are pissing all over the spirit).
Friend away, though I hardly ever post anything here. I may actually start adding people to my own friends list now that I finally took the time to figure out how to separate the comms from actual people. I've never used the thing before because it was always more efficient to just use my bookmarks. And, having come from the parts of fandoms that were originally Usenet based and then mailing list/archive based, I was late in coming to this LJ thing and never could figure out the etiquette of "friending."
*blushes*
Thank you :-)
Yeah, Mr. Goldberg doesn't have a lot of room to talk about "creativity" does he?
I think he may actually be right about the legality of it - although it's never really been tested and from what I've read (secondary sources - I'm a scientist not a lawyer) the courts have been increasingly lenient towards derivative work (as opposed to outright copying, which has become a hot button issue with the internet). But I got into it because of the ethical issue. As a practical issue I don't think that anyone can control fanfic - there's too much of it, almost all of it's written under pseudonyms and if theres a major crackdown people will just start hosting it on overseas servers. So it becomes up to the fans to self-police and decide if their actions are defensible.
Besides, it drives me nuts when people spout off about legalities without asking what the law was meant to do. That just leads to circular arguments and people who justify abhorrent behavior because the letter of the law allows it (even if it means they are pissing all over the spirit).
Friend away, though I hardly ever post anything here. I may actually start adding people to my own friends list now that I finally took the time to figure out how to separate the comms from actual people. I've never used the thing before because it was always more efficient to just use my bookmarks. And, having come from the parts of fandoms that were originally Usenet based and then mailing list/archive based, I was late in coming to this LJ thing and never could figure out the etiquette of "friending."
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