[ SECRET POST #3212 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3212 ⌋

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Comments

[alessandriana]

I honestly think a lot of the debate here boils down to fannish history. For the longest time fanart wasn't anywhere near as much of a thing online because dialup speeds made it impractical. Fanfic, being text, was a lot easier to access. It was also basically not tolerated by copyright holders at the time; I still remember people getting copyright takedown notices on their fic. As such, people tried to stay under the radar, and the fanfic community became a gift economy, where it was impolite to try and charge for fic-- and people who did so were slapped down hard, because they could bring the authorities down on us all.

Fanart became more of a thing as connection speeds got better, and at the same time copyright holders were getting more used to fannish expression, and less likely to sue. As such the fanart community didn't grow up into a similar gift economy, and it became acceptable for people to charge for fanart, where they wouldn't charge for fic.

I've noticed there's a generational gap as well-- newer members of fandom are far more likely to be okay with charging for fic, because they didn't grow up in that environment.

tl,dr: I still get very uncomfortable when people try to charge for fic because it goes directly against community norms, but I don't actually think there's a legal difference between charging for fic and charging for fanart.