[ SECRET POST #5886 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5886 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Stargate SG-1]



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09. [SPOILERS for Treasure Planet]




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10. [WARNING for discussion of incest]

[Vampire Game]



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11. [WARNING for possible discussion of transphobia (JK Rowling related)]




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12. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia, other bigotry, suicide]
























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #842.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Those are all possible reasons, though they do seem like they'd be the exception rather than the rule.

While I don't necessarily think OP of this secret is the hero in this situation, the discussions in this thread have convinced me that fic writers are no different to any other person who publishes something widely for free, and as such are subject to the same consequences.

Or, don't fucking publish stuff if you can't deal with the idea of no longer having perfect control over access to that content.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much every writer I know of, fan or not, who publishes stuff widely for free would freak the fuck out over somebody reposting their stuff without their name on it. Even the most open CC licenses require crediting the creator.

And if they aren't posting CC or in some kind of explicitly copypasta context, they will probably still get very angry at you if you republish their stuff with credit but without permission. What writing communities are you hanging out in?

[(Anonymous)]

"Even the most open CC licenses require crediting the creator."

That is incorrect. CC0 (public domain, no attribution required) is a well-known, frequently used licence.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

You're freaking out over "reposting without the author's name" in relation to something that the author deleted, along with their name. If they were ever concerned about wanting to prove that they wrote that, what they would have to do is ... not take a torch to their own writing.

OP is reuploading for the benefit of other fans. If you're worried about the lack of author attribution, I'd think what you should be worried about is that there could be people tracking fic deletions to submit those stories to ebook publishers for profit. Which would be a more sophisticated variation on something that's already caused problems. My wife was alerted by fic commenters on the AO3 one time that a popular novel-length story she wrote and put up there had had the serial numbers filed off by some jackass. She contacted the ebook publisher they'd hoodwinked and provided proof that the story was hers, and they immediately pulled it from their shelves and attempted to blacklist the crook. (Who knows how successful that was.) But I imagine proving authorship would be much harder if you had attempted to disappear from the internet along with your fics. Not least because few if any of the people who might have cared what happened to that story would have a way to contact you.