[ SECRET POST #2623 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2623 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

See, the first one is more important, to me. If you put it out there in the world for free, and when it gets popular, you suddenly get greedy? Yeah, no.

[forgottenjester]

Yeah, that tends to really bother me. I mean, I understand it but still. It makes me feel like I just watched someone do something a tad bit dirty and unclean.

[littlestbirds]

can someone explain further what upsets them about this? How is it different from someone writing a webcomic and then publishing it in a book? From what I've seen the writers who end up selling fic aren't opposed to giving it away for free, it's just that the publishing industry isn't able to allow for that. They'll often offer to send a copy to people who ask, or give people warning before they have to take it down.

My instinct is to say that the idea that money is a dirty subject always works in favour of those for whom money is no issue.

[truxillogical]

Yeah, I'm not really inclined to call anyone who dares to want to make money off of their creative efforts "greedy."

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

All I can think of is, what if a fanfic author, trying to move into original fiction, posts their original fic online. They have a good rep as a fanfic author, so some of their fans read their original fic. Then down the line, they get a publishing deal for a different story, and now they pull that first original fic off the net and if they see any hint of anyone having a copy of it elsewhere, they want to sue them for it?

There's also the other issue that if you put something out there, for free, there's a possibility of plagiarism that a publishing company has no way of stopping. It's only stories the company publishes that gets protected by copyright laws.

[littlestbirds]

I've never heard of either of these happening- they seem to be problems with a wider scope than people who sell fanfic? The closest I can think of is Sarah Rees Brennan requesting that people don't actively share her fic, but I think someone would have to be seriously disrespectful for her to hire a lawyer.

Obviously my experience is limited, but from what I've seen authors want to maintain a friendly relationship with fandom and still seem to get a lot of abuse for it. Even the comment below me, people just get upset!

[(Anonymous)]

I just had this happen in the middle of a (fairly popular) fic I was reading - author put up a notice that they pulled it offline to publish it. The fandom is a currently airing tv show, so yeah. I'm not okay with that, even if they change the names or whatever, and I'll be avoiding that author's work from now on.

[(Anonymous)]

I certainly hope they're either self-publishing or that they disclosed to their publisher that it's been published already...