[Rous]

Just thought this might be of interest. An article I was e-mailed through a groups. Kind of an answer to all the authors trying to sue and stop fanfic.


http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1336775,00.html

Edited by Robbie: Link doth now work.

[MaglorRedeemed]

Hmm... link doth not work.

[DarkElfChilde]

If the link didn't work, go here: http://books.guardian.co.uk/

Click news, and then go down to "work in progress". That's what I had to do. Really interesting article.[/url]

[Kendra]

Very interesting article. Thanks for the link! I'd never thought of fanfic in this way but it does make a great deal of sense since we more or less, are no longer of an oral society of storytellers sitting about family and fire, but have gone to a high-tech society of words on a screen.

Kendra

[inglor]

This is an interesting article. Though in defense of the authors, I imagine it is hurtful to see how some writers portray the characters they gave birth, breathed life into. Some of the stuff is downright BENT. I know if my characters were portayed as child beating rapists (Like I've seen Gil-Galad, Thranduil, Thingol, Maedhros, etc.), I'd be enraged.

I shudder to think what the Professor would say to some of the butchery some of us have done. I turned Galadriel into a philandering tramp and Finrod into an incestuous uncle and I don't think I could look him in the eye if he read them. Even though they redeemed themselves, I still feel a little guilty for doing that to the characters that, IMHO, are two of his favorites. (And mine too by the way.)

But I continue to write...

Inglor

[Thuriniel]

I can understand the writer's point of view when it comes to fanfiction. For example, JK Rowlings writes for children and to read a fanfic where Hermione and Snape have wild, hot sex, would be, to put it mildly, traumatizing. If I were JK Rowlings, I would especially worry that children that follow the books would find this in the internet and read it. I must add, though, that I've read articles in which JK has said that she does read HP fanfic and that some of the writers have come very close to guessing the finale of the seven books.

As I see it, when you publish your characters for the public to love (or to hate), they're out of your hands. They're your creations, yes, but they become part of other people's lives when you turn them over to them through your writing ... it's the price you pay. I was shocked one day when I received a review and the reviewer's screen name was the name of my OFC. I was surprised when one of my reviewers mentioned to me that she had come up with AUs to my own fiction ... but what are you going to do about it? Just enjoy the fact that your writing has other readers imaginations going !

And let's be realistic ... I'm sure the Tolkien state has realized by now that fanfic writers need their resources, even the ones that don't follow canon. If it weren't because I write fanfic, I would have never bothered to ask for HoME for my birthday or add Morgoth's Ring and Atlas of ME to my Christmas list. Fanfiction makes them money, plain and simple, and I don't see them complaining too loudly about that "little" fact.

[Rous]

[inglor]

[Rous]

[SpaceWeavil]

I've been asked a couple of times if other fanfic writers could borrow some of my OCs from different things, to use in their stories. I've always said okay, as those writers have been friends who I know wouldn't, say, stick my male OCs into a slash story or something, but it still feels a bit weird. In the same breath though, I do agree with Rous. I see it as a tribute to an author, if people want to play in their universe. I'd noticed Anne McCaffrey and Anne Rice on the 'do not touch' list on FF.Net, but I never knew any details about that.

[Thuriniel]