Comments on: Why Fanfic, Open Source, and Creative Commons Belong Together http://infotrope.net/blog/2007/06/11/why-fanfic-open-source-and-creative-commons-belong-together/ Kirrily Robert's blog Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:12:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Phairest http://infotrope.net/blog/2007/06/11/why-fanfic-open-source-and-creative-commons-belong-together/comment-page-1/#comment-1458 Phairest Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:48:13 +0000 http://infotrope.net/blog/2007/06/11/why-fanfic-open-source-and-creative-commons-belong-together/#comment-1458 Excuse my late comment, but I just stumbled across this via googling the legality of reposting others' fanfics, which you (inadvertantly I think) touch on in your 'Reboot' section. I find myself in a position nearly identical to that of your 'random fan'- in a nutshell, when fanfiction.net announced they were going to purge all their NC-17 content, I coordinated an effort to save as many doomed fics from my preferred fandom as possible, and when the axe finally dropped my comrades and I had managed several hundred. Several years later now, AFAIK I'm the only one still active in said fandom and still holding the master archive (the vast majority of which apparently exist nowhere online anymore). It was always my intent, and I still feel compelled, to restore these fics online somehow as you suggest, and I'm capable of doing so, but since then I've held off for various reasons. One ever-present concern of mine has been and is- do I have a leg to stand on legally in republishing others' fanfic, considering they may or may not have specified their prerogative on the matter? Excuse my late comment, but I just stumbled across this via googling the legality of reposting others’ fanfics, which you (inadvertantly I think) touch on in your ‘Reboot’ section.

I find myself in a position nearly identical to that of your ‘random fan’- in a nutshell, when fanfiction.net announced they were going to purge all their NC-17 content, I coordinated an effort to save as many doomed fics from my preferred fandom as possible, and when the axe finally dropped my comrades and I had managed several hundred. Several years later now, AFAIK I’m the only one still active in said fandom and still holding the master archive (the vast majority of which apparently exist nowhere online anymore).

It was always my intent, and I still feel compelled, to restore these fics online somehow as you suggest, and I’m capable of doing so, but since then I’ve held off for various reasons. One ever-present concern of mine has been and is- do I have a leg to stand on legally in republishing others’ fanfic, considering they may or may not have specified their prerogative on the matter?

]]> By: Skud http://infotrope.net/blog/2007/06/11/why-fanfic-open-source-and-creative-commons-belong-together/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Skud Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:25:37 +0000 http://infotrope.net/blog/2007/06/11/why-fanfic-open-source-and-creative-commons-belong-together/#comment-31 Philip: Hrm, yeah, might look into that. Not quite sure how, but I'm sure WP has a plugin for it; WP seems to have a plugin for just about everything. Philip: Hrm, yeah, might look into that. Not quite sure how, but I’m sure WP has a plugin for it; WP seems to have a plugin for just about everything.

]]> By: Philip Newton http://infotrope.net/blog/2007/06/11/why-fanfic-open-source-and-creative-commons-belong-together/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Philip Newton Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:59:36 +0000 http://infotrope.net/blog/2007/06/11/why-fanfic-open-source-and-creative-commons-belong-together/#comment-29 <i>(See the bottom of this post, for example: if you’re reading it on Infotropism, it should have a CC-BY-SA logo and link in the footer, and if you’re reading it elsewhere, they should have the same license visible somewhere because of the “share-alike” clause.)</i> Not so on the LiveJournal syndicated account, presumably because the CC-BY-SA logo and link is in the footer but not actually (mechanically) connected to the post itself but to the template into which any given post is inserted _when viewed through your blog_. Perhaps you would like to include the info in each post, or otherwise arrange for it to be included in syndicated feed items? (See the bottom of this post, for example: if you’re reading it on Infotropism, it should have a CC-BY-SA logo and link in the footer, and if you’re reading it elsewhere, they should have the same license visible somewhere because of the “share-alike” clause.)

Not so on the LiveJournal syndicated account, presumably because the CC-BY-SA logo and link is in the footer but not actually (mechanically) connected to the post itself but to the template into which any given post is inserted _when viewed through your blog_.

Perhaps you would like to include the info in each post, or otherwise arrange for it to be included in syndicated feed items?

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