Co-Incidence (Authors & Fanfic)

[lightofdaye]

We were just talking about this the other day


The resounding result of that article seems to be 'authors don't like fanfic.' I can certainly see their point along of the lines of 'writing your own stuff is better' in terms of originality and obviously publishableness and your chances of making it as an author but on the other hand. I'm pretty sure fanfic isn't a threat to an author's income or trade marks either. Especially if properly disclaimered. So short of people trying to sell unofficial HP8 books I fail to see the harm.

Alas JKR seemed quite sympathetic. Except she doesn't want porno fic. Won't some please think of the children! Though judging by the amount of underage user they had to pull of places like adultfanfiction It's a pretty sure bet they already know this stuff.             

Comments

[luna-plath.livejournal.com]

I feel like a lot of the people who are so against fanfic just don't understand it, and this link kind of shows that. I know of authors who started out writing fanfiction and their attitude toward it is totally different.

Lol, I like JKR's response. When you consider that HP is a children's series, the way the characters are used is actually kind of funny/odd.

But what novels like Death Comes to Pemberly or Scarlet--the only difference between those books and fanfiction is the works they're based on have fallen into public domain. Just...*sigh* This is always what I think of when people say that fanfic writers should just write their own stuff.

[lightofdaye]

Remember kids, when amateurs do it is dastardly plagiarism, when professionals do it is a clever homage

[luna-plath.livejournal.com]

HA! This ^ definitely. That will always frustrate me though. A big part of literature is building off other people's work. Just look at Paradise Lost, which is a literary retelling of Bible passages, or Faust, which was based off well-known folk stories.

[lightofdaye]

Might do but how often to you really read fanfiction of something you're not interested in?