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heidi8:

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jaylie12:

I posted a couple days ago about the legality of fanfiction.  Now let’s take a look at “legitimate” works that could be considered fanfiction.  Here’s a sample:

• My Fair Lady (adapted from Pygmalion)
• West Side Story (just one of many reinventions of Romeo and Juliet)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (I don’t think I need to say anything here)
• Mists of Avalon (retelling of The Legend of Camelot) and several other works by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Lavinia (a side character from the Aeneid, who is the main character in Ursula Le Guin’s recent novel - which I find ironic/hypocritical because she’s an opponent of fanfiction but I still love her writing)
• Disney (Robin Hood as a fox, anyone?)

I found a very long list of works that fall under the definition of fanfiction, and someone also livejournaled about it.  Go here: I’m done explaining why fanfic is okay for an amazingly thorough cataloguing of these works.  And if you make it through the entire list, check out the resources.

For those that have been complaining, come back to me after you read this and see if your argument still holds.  I’m all for your right to complain, but at least be informed about what you’re complaining about.  There’s a big difference between personal preference, and what is legally permissible.  And maybe you should think about having an intelligent discussion about the topic.  I’m all for a healthy debate, but I don’t care for empty threats and insults.

THIS IS EXTREMELY RELEVANT.

The quoted section is by bookshop.tumblr.com - I contributed some of the references to it a billion years ago, and it’s a terrific resource. 

Chaeche from Snapecast and I will be presenting at Ascendio in Orlando in July on For How To Debate Clueless And Uninformed People About Transformative Works, or, El Tango de Roxanne; it’s going to cover fanfic-related issues and other types of transformative works, and we’re going to both explain why we are so committed to The Organization for Transformative Works as a fan-created project and its specific work to educate the world about fair use. 

Reblog for signal boost, because these are important informations, but also for the IWANTTOBETHERE factor.