[FFML] Mercedes Lacky reverses stance on Fanfiction

[Benjamin Gemignani]

Isn't that the standard fan fiction disclaimer?

--- On Thu, 10/29/09, Hraefn <hraefn at hraefn.org> wrote:

> From: Hraefn <hraefn at hraefn.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFML] Mercedes Lacky reverses stance on Fanfiction
> To: "The Fanfiction Mailing List" <ffml at chez-vrolet.net>
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 6:07 AM
> Based on Mercedes Lackey's news
> announcement, I'd say the particular
> Creative Commons License she and her agent are looking for
> is the Creative
> Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United
> States License (or
> by-nc-sa for short). Well, technically that's the license
> that most
> fanfiction works fall under, anyway, but it seems they just
> want things
> explicitly stated. In layman's terms, by using the above
> mentioned license,
> you declare that:
> 
> 1. Mercedes Lackey (and her publisher) is the creator and
> owner of the
> original licensed work.
> 
> 2. That you agree not to use any or all portion of said
> original work for
> commercial purposes.
> 
> 3. That your work is a derivative of said original works
> and that you can
> only distribute your work under a similar license as this
> one (by-nc-sa).
> 
> For the full legalese, read this:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
> 
> As for how to use the license, you simply put a note
> (perhaps in the
> disclaimer) stating the terms above. If possible, also link
> to the relevant
> license page (the one I posted earlier). So yeah, it's
> pretty much the same
> thing fanfiction authors have been doing for years, only
> now we have a page
> of valid legalese to use that will hold up in court.
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