The Anti-Anti-Fanfic Bingo Card
Dec. 15th, 2007 10:21 amAdapted from the Anti-Fanfic Bingo Card created by ithliana and friends.
Transformative works are legal! | Copyright is being abused out of greed! | If you ask the writer for permission their lawyers won't let them say yes even if they want to! | You're flattering the writers you love! | You bring new life to characters that a busy writer hasn't time for! |
Fanfic IS real writing; it's social bonding, shared dreams harkening back to the first storytellers of pre-history! | Dead authors won't have the pleasure of knowing how they inspired others! | If someone wrote fanfic about my story, I would send them virtual flowers. | It's like you came by my house, photographed my car, and built one of your own, but with racing stripes, fins and a jet-pack ejection seat! | If fanfic gets kids to read, it's great. Fanfic isn't *all* about the porn! |
I'm keeping your characters alive and vital! | Joss Whedon! | Slash is a wonderful thing! It keeps many women from running amuck with Uzis!! | Mercedes Lackey! | It's moral to create and share! |
You owe the writers money for their books! Don't buy coverless books on the cheap! | You're acting like creative people! | Good fan stories will make people want to buy a writer's work! | You're flattering me! | Noncommercial parodies are protected by the First Amendment! |
It's very ethical to create something out of admiration and share it freely! | It's transformative use- Just like Disney did when he | If you have a contract, you're a professional, act like one! | Fanwriters are just like loyal friends! | Putting it on the internet for everybody to see creates a larger potential market for the author as people become curious about the source work! |