- Anti-Fanfic Bingo, part four
Rounds one, two, and three of Anti-Fanfic Bingo produced some terrific responses, including a great little vid for the third round. Let's see what you can come up with for the fourth row:
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2. Actually, no, you are.
3. Er, have you looked at Fanfiction.net recently? Do you think the trash there caused JK Rowling to lose a dime? Puhlease.
4. Wow. You have more issues than Anne Rice. Wait, are you Anne Rice?
5. How about you stick to writing, I'll stick to fanning and the lawyers can stick to lawyering?
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2. Huh? The fan community, like most communities, is diverse and there are many different opinions represented. Please don't tar all of us with the same brush.
3. What world do you live in? Really. Anyone with half a brain can easily distinguish between the published work of an author and the fan stuff online, and I have never heard of anyone that decides against reading or buying something because the fanfic associated with it is bad. That's rather like not buying Metallica because you once heard a lousy Metallica cover band.
4. Wow. No, I'm not. I am not forcing you to have sex with me. I am writing fiction set in your universe. Please, have a sense of perspective.
5. It may be. But is it really worth trying to stop us? We're your devoted fans, we love your stuff, or we wouldn't be doing this. And we're not making any money off it. So, please, relax.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Bad fan stories will make people not want to buy a writer's work!
But far more often, the good stories bring more people into the fandom than would get there otherwise. There are some things I wouldn't have ever considered reading or watching if not for fandom; Good Omens, which led me to the rest of Gaiman and Pratchett's work, is likely my best example. If one of my pre-LJ-era friends hadn't used Crowley fanart for her blog layout one spring, I wouldn't have discovered the book, and about 35-40 more books by the same authors, for quite some time (if at all). And I've bought about 20 of those books, and had another ten or so bought for me.
Yes, it's art and not fic, but tell me how the fanwork hurt the authors financially.
You're raping me!
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+++Divide By Cucumber Error+++Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot+++
It's trademark infringement!Does that only count if you try to sell it ( ... )
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Oh, this is the best line! You made me laugh out loud with it!
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Sorry *slaps self*
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2. We're not the one saying that nobody else can play with their toys.
3. All of Lee Goldberg's crappy tie-ins haven't stopped people from watching Monk.
4. Out of respect for victims of actual sexual violence, including myself, please STFU now.
5. OMG, if Disney can't keep people from using their old cartoons indefinitely, it could be the end of the world as we know it (tm).
/snarkiness
Yes, I recognize that these aren't useful discussion-friendly helpy rebuttals. But #4 pissed me off.
(A more nicer way of phrasing #5 could be pointing out all the ways that the copyright/trademark system is broken in favor of corporations, and how that actually hurts, rather than helps, the innovation the system was supposed to encourage in the first place.)
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I certainly respect the effort and talent they put into their artistic creation. But I don't always agree with people I respect, nor do I always follow their wishes. I respect my mother more than almost anyone in the world, but when she says she doesn't like the new guy I'm dating, I listen cordially and then make my own decision. She is not the boss of me. And neither are authors.
You're acting like spoiled children!
That would imply that I am whining, crying, and abusing those who refuse to give me something I want. I'm not whining, I'm not crying, and I'm not calling anyone nasty names. (Some people in fandom probably are, but that's what some people do, whether it's over fanfiction or their cell phone bill.) Also, the spoiled-children similie implies that I am asking for something I don't have a right to and don't deserve. Obviously, I don't see the creation of fanworks in that light.
Bad fan stories will make people not want to buy a writer's work!Bad ( ... )
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I've gotta admit, the argument that pisses me off the most is that fanfic is rape. People use that word to describe too many things, and when you do, the original meaning uses value. I find that that action is far worse than anything fanfic writers could ever do.
(Do people really say this? I mean, come on.)
Yes, yes they do. And it drives me *crazy*. They obviously have no idea what they're talking about.
Um, I could be wrong, but isn't trademark entirely different from copyright?I could also be wrong here, but I think they are different things, but trademark can be applied to fiction. Like Disney trademarked Mickey (at least, maybe more) because they don't want to ( ... )
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