Fan Fiction: Against
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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I 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 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 06:39 am (UTC)I think it is vandalism, and it's often willful, gleeful, rather than simply ignorant vandalism. In one case (involving one of my stories) someone took a carefully built, multifacted empath and turned him into a bullying, power-mad rapist. For fun.
That's vandalism, that's abuse, that's copyright infringement -- and if ever there'd been a chance I'd go for more or less open attitude toward Liaden fanfic it was shot down right there.