loryndalar.bsky.social
#Librarian and #greyhound aficionado — When I’m not cataloguing my #dog I #write #literary leaning #SpecFic and #Fantasy
He / They #Queer in a #Gay way
Lives on Whadjuk Nyoongar land
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Accidentally saw the movie as a child, and then sought out every collection! The Dog was SO MUCH like my mad Border Collie
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Twins!
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And with a truly robust tradition of Fair Use / Fair Dealing to allow cultural engagement between creators
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It is wonderful and WEIRD (and I live in Australia)! Also my PhD supervisor, super-geek Helen Merrick is part of the choir in it :)
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I think of it as advice to not just make a milquetoast copy, but to take it all and make it your own (perform your own indignities on it without hesitation or shame!)
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Copyright is weird because it makes artistic work into a kind of property, unlike other kinds of work which are transitory.
(All this presupposes the artist getting paid a fair amount for their work, and a more reasonable copyright licensing term where they make royalties for use, not ownership)
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Very true! Everyone has to eat. But consider that an architect doesn’t earn royalties on the building they designed after their death, what they pass on to their kids is the house they bought with the money they made when they sold it.
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I feel called out! That's my WiP
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Definitely a fan of author’s rights (I’m a writer too!) but not corporate rights. Copyright is/was an incentive to create, after all, not a perpetual grant
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It goes to show that all art is influenced by other works, and perhaps it’s just that fan fic is more honest about that fact.
At some point, “influence” becomes “inspiration”
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Though the Conan Doyle estate DID try to sue the filmmakers of “Enola Holmes” over Copyright shenanigans… and Arkham House tries to pretend they own Lovecraft’s work… so even older work gets caught up in over-zealous litigation
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Writers often want to play in other peoples’ stories, and that’s a pleasure in its own right. Creative labor isn’t only about its monetary value. Of course, there are good examples of authors re-tooling their fan fic and selling it later *cough*50 Shades *cough*
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Well, it’s only plagiarism if it’s not acknowledged (which it’s not!) But reading, taking notes, and quoting is not plagiarism
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Replace with “semi-colon,” and “em-dash” and I’m with you!