[FFML] Mercedes Lacky reverses stance on Fanfiction

[David McMillan]

Bob Schroeck wrote:
>>> Thanks to the corrupting influence of Cory Doctorow upon her
>>> agent, Mercedes Lackey is now allowing fanfiction
> 
>> 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>

	Yabbut, that means we finally get to see what happens when Doug uses 
"We Built This City (on ROCK AND ROLL!)"

	Excuse me, I have to go put on my '80s duds and rock out now.  :)