[FFML] Continue dead or abandon fics by other authors.

[seb ren]

Honestly, the idea of "intellectual property" is meaningless drivel dreamed
up by the various majors' legal representatives and their ilk.

Once any creative work has been released into the world, it's everyone's
property. What you may own is the copyright, in other the right to make
copies of it, nothing more, nothing less. This is granted by society at
large (even though, in the last few decades, the process by which this
happens has been hijacked by said majors through sheer corruption of the
legal representatives of said society).

To go back to the topic therein, I've read enough FF where the input from
the author is such a slight deviation from the original (blink and you'll
miss it) to think such distinction really is artificial (not to mention
those that do not deviate at all and only offer the inner dialogue of one
or more characters while the story goes on). Of course, the probability
that somebody would want to continue such work if unfinished is quite low.
On the other hand, I completely understand if someone would like to give an
ending to "On a Clear Day..." I personally probably wouldn't read it (as I
feel it wouldn't be the 'real' ending), but I'm sure some would.
Why not? Disrespect to the original author? Writing is a time consuming
endeavour that involves a lot of effort; attempting to finish somebody
else's work shows, if anything, great respect and love.

2015-08-12 14:23 GMT+02:00 Larry F <lwf58 at cvalley.net>:

> On 8/12/2015 4:52 AM, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
>
>> Time and time again, I have been thinking if another author could continue
>>>> dead fics with the permission of the original author.
>>>>
>>> Of course.  Getting that permission may be difficult, but once obtained,
>>> the only party whose consent matters has given it.
>>>
>> Ok, I'll bite.
>>
>> Why do you think you need the permission of the original fanfiction
>> author?
>>
>> People write fanfiction all the time without asking for permission
>> from the original author(s) of fiction/manga/anime.
>>
>>
>>
> Because there's a big difference in writing an original story based on
> ideas, settings, situations and characters created by another, and taking
> over and reprinting a story written by another person without permission,
> which is defined as plagiarism.
>
> Fan fiction depends on a gray area of copyright law to exist, and the
> latter action crosses the line into outright theft of intellectual
> property. Even though the original and true copyright holder for the work a
> fan fiction story is based on probably won't care, the fan fiction
> community *does*, and will give the plagiarizer a great deal of grief for
> having done so. We are a self-policing community.
>
> The rule of thumb regarding acceptability is that you can write an
> original story based on a published or broadcast original work, and you can
> borrow a plot device from another fan fiction story. In other words, if you
> read a story in which Naruto gets a technological power-up from an alien
> artifact and like the idea, it's perfectly okay for you to write your own
> story in which that happens. What is unacceptable is directly copying
> entire paragraphs or chapters from the original copyrighted work or from
> another fan fiction story (although the former is often done by newbies),
> or publishing another fan author's work without permission. An exception to
> that is using attributed quotes. For example, you can have a chapter
> heading where you quote a paragraph from the original work, and then give
> the book title, chapter, and author credit at the end of it.
>
> That's because even though fan fiction is itself technically theft of
> intellectual property, it's still somewhat protected by copyright law at
> least in theory, since the *story* being told is an original derivative
> work. That's why it's in a gray area of the law; as long as the fan author
> does not try to use the story as for monetary gain, there is wiggle room in
> the "fair use" areas of the law.
>
> All of that comes to a screeching halt if the original copyright owner
> writes a story that is similar to an existing fan fiction work, though. His
> or her rights and ownership of the intellectual property trumps that of any
> fan fiction writer.
>
>
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