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| From: Caroline Ann Seawright <kunoichi@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
| Date: June 9, 1996 1:01 AM
| > Fanzines are ignored by The Powers That Be, as long as they DON'T
make a profit.
| > True, there are 'zines out there that try t make a profit,and a few
that
| > do, but submitting to them is the legal eqivalent of spending a
| > thunderstorm on a hill on the golf course with your nine iron held
skyward.
| 
| What I was saying is that THEY are MAKING MONEY out of YOUR FANFIC.
THAT
| is totally wrong. a) Because you don't get paid b) Because it's
breaking
| copywrite for making money out of something that isn't really legal to
| begin with. So they are ripping you off and doing illegal things...

They're trading goods for your stories, which is kind of like getting
paid, but is more of an incentive to submit fics to the magazine and
then buy the magazine.  When we buy the magazine, both the zine itself
and the anime/manga producers benefit.  It may be technically illegal,
but it helps the industry grow.  And what kind of Capitalist is going to
stop potential growth just because it's illegal?    ^_^