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Diana Gabaldon
May. 3rd, 2010 07:25 pmDiana Gabaldon has publicly condemned, via the enthusiastic torching of several TOTAL strawpeople, all fan fiction as illegal, immoral, utterly derivative while at the same time polluting to her (apparently independently conscious) characters, and execrably written. Huh. Glad I never bought any of her books. Here is my response
Hey, Diana
Wow, you impressively don't get it. Your legal interpretation is flat-out wrong, but the few comments you're letting through that are not totally supportive of you seem to be making that pretty clear. Here's my take on the whole "oh, the damage to my artistic integrity!" bit.
How 'bout this. If you don't want anyone else to think about characters and settings you created, and respond to them and shape them to the narrative needs of their own lives, as people have done since the earliest days _of_ narratives, how 'bout you just not bother publishing them? That'll keep them all nice and safe and pristine!
Thanks,
Retrofit
Hey, Diana
Wow, you impressively don't get it. Your legal interpretation is flat-out wrong, but the few comments you're letting through that are not totally supportive of you seem to be making that pretty clear. Here's my take on the whole "oh, the damage to my artistic integrity!" bit.
How 'bout this. If you don't want anyone else to think about characters and settings you created, and respond to them and shape them to the narrative needs of their own lives, as people have done since the earliest days _of_ narratives, how 'bout you just not bother publishing them? That'll keep them all nice and safe and pristine!
Thanks,
Retrofit
