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Dfox22@aol.com wrote:

Actually, that brings up something I wanted to question for some time.
It's pretty much a given that, should an author/creator request that people
stop using their creations in their fanworks, that most (creditable) writers
will do so.

It is my understanding that Sharp, upon learning that other writers were
using WH&P universe as a setting for their own fics, without his 
permissionasked that they stop, until such time that he completed his
work. Many complied; some didn't.

My question:  Should all the writers have waited untill Sharp finished (or 
at least seemed to), or did they have the moral right to post?
Did Sharp right is asking them to hold off?  These other authers were
writing fics set in another writers playground; isn't it an unwritten
rule that you don't do that? 

I think you're asking something that can't really be answered, at least
not definitively. Everybody has his or her own opinion on what's right
and what isn't. On the one hand, all of us are using manga/anime
characters without the creators' permission. On the other hand, none of
those creators have told us *not* to use their characters. It's up to
the consciences of individual writers (and readers, who might or might
not choose to boycott the work of such authors).


Gary Kleppe
http://www.garykleppe.org/comics.html

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