ext_3797 ([identity profile] fengi.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] liz_marcs 2008-01-21 02:41 am (UTC)

Another rhetorical issue

This also feeds into another issue I've had with OTW discussion.

As far as I know, non-commercial self-amusement is protected under current fair use.

So outsiders might read fan-fiction activism as trying to legalize for profit, unauthorized fan-fiction of living authors. A simple direct position on commercial use would help the cause, and OTW "What We Believe" page doesn't have it.

When I mention this, the responses tend to the vague and tangental combining 2 Live Crew's version of Pretty Woman, The Wind Done Gone, Homer's The Odessey and a case where a woman's fan and a perhaps apocryphal instance where fandom played a role in a custody case. Which seems like avoiding the point and using examples which fail to support it anyway, and makes it seem like they have an agenda opposed to my concept of authorial rights.

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