[ SECRET POST #1950 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1950 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 122 secrets from Secret Submission Post #279.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with you mostly, I write original fiction and I would definitely allow fanfiction. I would take it as a compliment that someone was so inspired by my work that they wanted to write about it. :) However... I'm sorry, but I have a really hard time with the "as soon as it's published, it's public property" notion. Like, yes, if you're sharing your work with others, they are entitled to their opinions and interpretations. But getting something published does not in any way mean that it's somehow not the author's property anymore. The work belongs to the author, not to the readers, whether or not it's published, and if an author decides they don't want to allow fanfiction, that is their RIGHT as the author and people should frankly just respect their wishes.

[dragon-soda.livejournal.com]

English is not my first language, so I might have used "property" wrong in context, what I mean is: The actual work of course belongs to the author, no question - but by publishing it, it becomes a part of popular culture, and if it is good and preserves it becomes cultural property (like the classics). It stops being solely the property of the author, but becomes something bigger than that, because people consume it, think about it, interpret it, discuss it. And by this, it kind of becomes the "property" of the whole (sub-)culture. Not in a legal way, but in an emotional way. (There are fictional characters I love more than half of my family ...)

And that is a progress, that - at least for me - can't just be stopped. There is nothing an author can do or say, to stop me THINKING and FEELING about his work after reading it. That just happens. If it is a good work, if I get drawn in, I can't just stop the "What if"s and the "But I would have liked that better"-thoughts. And it is only a tiny step to write my thoughts down in fanfiction.

And frankly speaking, I usually don't care about who the author is and what opinion this author has about anything, since it is the work, that matters to me, and not the author. And he has no rights over my thoughts and feelings and the way I express them (Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Thought are human rights after all). If he says, he doesn't want fanfics to be published on the net, that is one thing, but he can't keep me from imagining and writing.