[FFML] Mercedes Lacky reverses stance on Fanfiction

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Who? And what does she write?

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:24 AM, William C. Lathan III
<zoomorph at gmail.com>wrote:

> YAY!!!
>
> Bob Schroeck wrote:
> >> What was her problem with fanfictions in the first place ???
> >>
> >
> > Well, it was more her agent than her, but basically it was the
> > standard, reasonable motivation -- protect her rights to her own
> > work.  Just... a little more energetically -- some say
> > draconically -- than other authors might.  In particular she was
> > strongly influenced by an incident where a fan writer managed to
> > force Marion Zimmer Bradley to scuttle an entire Darkover book
> > by threatening a lawsuit over a similar idea to one she used in
> > her fic.
> >
> > However, she and her agent now feel that a Creative Commons
> > license protects her rights sufficiently to allow unfettered
> > fan creativity.
> >
> > Which, as my readers have just pointed out to me, means that I
> > now have to write the long-moribund "Drunkard's Walk I".  Argh.
> > <grin>
> >
> > -- Bob
> >
> >
> ===========================================================================
> > Bob Schroeck          http://www.eclipse.net/~rms<http://www.eclipse.net/%7Erms>
> rms at eclipse.net
> >
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> > Then the horns kicked in...
> > ...and my shoes began to squeak.
> >
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