[ SECRET POST #4911 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4911 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Allowing people to make money out of fanfic is, to my mind, the least worrying part of the commodification of fandom. This is worrying about the barn door being open after the whole barnyard has gotten out. And I'm especially uncertain whether opposition to writers making money is actually in the best interests of writers, as you try to frame it. I'm sure that some writers would feel worse about it but that doesn't seem like a strong argument to me. I don't know! I'm sure that some fanartists really dislike the fact that some people charge money for fanart, but we still don't seem to have a problem with the practice in general.

[(Anonymous)]

I worry about it because, as the Axanar snafu demonstrated, "fair use" gets mighty tenuous when you start having a funding model, even if you're paying yourself well below market rate.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I agree that there are legal questions to be answered and I think this is a much better reason to be cautious about the commodification of fandom than the reasons that OP seems to give. Although that said, I don't think those problems are really moral objections whereby doing it is wrong; they're simply a consequence of the state of the law as it exists whereby doing it is unpractical.