Fanfic while social networking. This time, with RTF.

[nighteevee]

(Do delete if deemed OT)

So, Fictionaire.

www.Fictionaire.com Fan Fiction and Original Stories - Join *the* fiction writers’ social network. Interactive profiles, friend lists, popularity tracking, fiction reviews, streaming updates, and more! Will your fiction be here? (from the userinfo of fictionaire)

C&C plz? post over at FFR.

Comments

Ummm.... NO.

[elfwreck]

The frightening parts are "sublicenseable and transferable license"--that means they can sell use of your stuff. You retain "copyright," for whatever that means when someone else has total rights to use your stuff any way they want.

Their only limitation is "in connection with the Website"--which means anything from "we grab a snippet of your fanfic to post on the front page as a teaser" to "we sell the right to re-write your story to a multi-million dollar movie script and insist on the words with thanks to Fictionaire being included in the credits."

It's possible this is just another case of someone grabbing boilerplate from other sites and not being aware of what they're saying. But it looks pretty scary.

Especially when closing with the words "perpetual and irrevocable"--instead of them going away when you want to remove your stuff from their site.

[tahariel]

When I'm shot full of crazy drugs, so much so that I cannot form a coherent sentence, I still wouldn't give you the perpetual and irrevocable rights to my gibberish, even if it's just strings of random letters hit by my uncontrollable limbs. Because you never know, if I sit there long enough, I might write Hamlet by accident.

[claudee]

Unbelievable ... *shakesHead*

[elfwreck]

The owner seems to be responding well to the concerns at FFR. So maybe this was cluelessness, not greed.

[sayhello]

He does seem to be listening to input, and that's good. Also some props for finally figuring out how to use (and reply) in lj... :-)

But that TOS is a scary, scary thing. Needs to change radically.