Fanlib

[owl]

I have been watching Fanlib (I'm not going to up their Googlerank by linking. This post is a good explanation) and its resultant kerfuffle with an eye of interest. I'm expecting it to Not Work one way or the other: either it will go out in a bang with cease and desists (why both?), or the fans will decide it's more fun on the Pit of Voles without corporations breathing down their necks. I'm all on for dubbing Fanlib the Pit of Weasels, by the way.

The thing I want to know is: who is the money coming from, and to whom is it going?

I'm surprised Lee Goldberg hasn't started foaming at the mouth yet, but to tide us over someone else is. (The writer who praised fanfic is Cory Doctorow).

I don't understand why these people hate all fanfic so passionately. OK, I can see why authors might feel weird at their stuff being ficced, and wanting to put restrictions on it, and maybe even why they would try to ban it altogether. But I can't understand why they're frothing at the mouth at the very mention of the word, and get all shifty when you ask them about public domain works. As far as I'm concerned, if anyone asked me to lend them Keit and co I'd be tickled to death.

Ah, well, probably it all looks very different when you're writing pro fic for Diagnosis Murder.

Comments

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering about the money too. The figure I've been reading is $3 million dollars. I mean - that's a lot of change.

[owl]

Yes, 'find the money' is always a good motto.

$3 million dollars

!!!

So, if someone puts up a Harry Potter fic, does JKR get any of this $3 million?

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

I'm all on for dubbing Fanlib the Pit of Weasels, by the way.

It is so dubbed.

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

Heh, I doubt she sees a dime of it.

Someone on fandom wank claims that they are supposidly telling people if they upload 100 stories they will give them an iPod nano. No idea if that's accurate or not but it made me think of the whole Cassie Claire ipod computer wank from a while back.

The whole thing is just weird.

[owl]

I've seen people call it that, I'm just throwing in my support.

[owl]

I am automatically dubious of anything involving iPods and fanfic. :)

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

All we have to do is get it to catch on at Making Light-- it'll spread from there.