Just a comment about what fanfiction really is and also how the argument over fanfiction is irrelavent.
It's in the concept that there is no such thing as an orginal idea. So much of what we read and watch today is sipmly mined form previous ideas and altered slightly.
I'm doing Gendered Cinema this semester and on our reading list was Virgina Woolf's Mrs Dalloway which 'inspired' the novel The Hours which was adapted into a film. The Hours also included an interpretation of V. Woolf her self. Tell me that's nor RPF! Is fanfiction OK when the novel is out of copywrite? Someone else made a profit (a huge profit) of the work of another author. But thats ok because she is Dead!
i wonder if the author's complaining about not-profiting fanfiction will be forgotten when they're DEAD and out of copywrite.
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Date: 2010-05-30 02:47 am (UTC)Just a comment about what fanfiction really is and also how the argument over fanfiction is irrelavent.
It's in the concept that there is no such thing as an orginal idea. So much of what we read and watch today is sipmly mined form previous ideas and altered slightly.
I'm doing Gendered Cinema this semester and on our reading list was Virgina Woolf's Mrs Dalloway which 'inspired' the novel The Hours which was adapted into a film. The Hours also included an interpretation of V. Woolf her self. Tell me that's nor RPF! Is fanfiction OK when the novel is out of copywrite? Someone else made a profit (a huge profit) of the work of another author. But thats ok because she is Dead!
i wonder if the author's complaining about not-profiting fanfiction will be forgotten when they're DEAD and out of copywrite.