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Post Mortem
Dec. 27th, 2011 02:35 amRight, so I've been wondering about this for a while, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mklutz brought this up on The Slash Report, so I thought I would see what you guys think.
As you know, there are some authors who disapprove of fanfiction and forbid any fic of their works. From some sources and from what I've heard went down, this zero tolerance policy from many popular writers such as Andre Norton, Anne Rice, and Anne McCaffrey (who now allows fic following her set of rules, which are a headache. I'm not going to REGISTER my fic. That is some police state shit right there) stems in part from a key incident.
Marion Zimmer Bradley and a fan had a conflict over who had ownership over a particular piece of writing. She saw something a fan had done that meshed really well with a piece of Darkover story she was writing, so she offered to pay him for the rights. (Bad move or not?) The fan felt slighted because of other issues, things happened, blah blah, copyright stuff. It was a bad scene.
To avoid getting into legal troubles or being accused of "stealing" work from fans (dick move, fans), the authors just banned fic. Some authors, like McCaffrey, have a list of rules for fans, while others are okay with fic but don't want to flirt the dubious legal line of reading it. (This is Naomi Novik's stance. Oh, Ms. Novik. You know the entire Temeraire fandom is just really polite and proper Lawrence/Granby slashfic where they play chess and fill out each others dance cards. No, that is not a euphemism.)
( McCaffrey Rule 1: "You do not talk about Fight Club." )
mklutz brought this up on The Slash Report, so I thought I would see what you guys think.As you know, there are some authors who disapprove of fanfiction and forbid any fic of their works. From some sources and from what I've heard went down, this zero tolerance policy from many popular writers such as Andre Norton, Anne Rice, and Anne McCaffrey (who now allows fic following her set of rules, which are a headache. I'm not going to REGISTER my fic. That is some police state shit right there) stems in part from a key incident.
Marion Zimmer Bradley and a fan had a conflict over who had ownership over a particular piece of writing. She saw something a fan had done that meshed really well with a piece of Darkover story she was writing, so she offered to pay him for the rights. (Bad move or not?) The fan felt slighted because of other issues, things happened, blah blah, copyright stuff. It was a bad scene.
To avoid getting into legal troubles or being accused of "stealing" work from fans (dick move, fans), the authors just banned fic. Some authors, like McCaffrey, have a list of rules for fans, while others are okay with fic but don't want to flirt the dubious legal line of reading it. (This is Naomi Novik's stance. Oh, Ms. Novik. You know the entire Temeraire fandom is just really polite and proper Lawrence/Granby slashfic where they play chess and fill out each others dance cards. No, that is not a euphemism.)
( McCaffrey Rule 1: "You do not talk about Fight Club." )
