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rolanniRobin Hobb has posted a cogent rant here. Link from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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In the service of Full Disclosure and Fair Warning, I do agree with Robin's points. Scott Lynch (link also frompegkerr) does not.
pegkerrI know that some folks on my friends list write fan fic, and may thus not agree with Robin's points. If you feel compelled to disagree with them here, please be polite and rational. Posts deemed impolite, irrational, or both, by Eagles Over the Kennebec Management will be deleted.
In the service of Full Disclosure and Fair Warning, I do agree with Robin's points. Scott Lynch (link also from
pegkerr) does not.
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Date: 2005-06-24 05:58 am (UTC)Isn't there a well-established tradition in painting, that one learns first to paint like the master? I'm remembering Don Maitz telling us of a visit to Donato's studio where he also saw the work of several of Donato's students, one of whom had just completed a painting which was, according to Don, indistinguishable from a Donato.
This feels like a different situation to me: Obviously one's apprenticed students have one's permission -- even insistence -- to copy their technique and, sometimes, their work.