Mod Post

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Evening, all.

Earlier this week, a request was made for a fic. Someone nicely linked to a memories page that had the fic listed, but the author came in and asked that her fic not be shared. However, it seemed that people were emailing the fic to one another. I could be wrong, please correct me if I am. But this appears to be the case.

Please note: if an author askes not to have their fics linked to, please abide by this. If we upset the authors, we get no fic to read, and that would make us all pretty sad. Most are perfectly fine with us linking to their journals, and oftentimes have posted their fics to outside archives. Also, please be courteous about sharing fics. Try emailing the author to see if it would be okay to share their fics. Some may even be gracious enough to send you a hardcopy to keep on your computer. Trust me, I've emailed lots of authors, and they are generally very good about this. They will also at times unlock certain fics if there's enough of a interest.

Let's all remember to be considerate towards our fellow authors and readers.

K, SUN

Comments

[fraserette.livejournal.com]

interesting. I've never heard of this happening before.

[rinmonsterer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if we're thinking about the same 'incident', but in one of the recent posts that I have in mind, the author asked not to email her fics, because they were f-locked, so people started passing them under the table. I don't think I've ever seen any author prohibiting anyone from linking to them... But yeah, it's their call.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

I must've missed the original post, but I don't understand, at all, an author objecting to someone providing a link to her fics.

If that link turns out to be to a flocked journal, then the reader has to decide whether to friend an LJ of someone they don't know and don't necessarily want to friend (not because they object to the writer, but because there's no relationship there) and this is why I'm a fan of the various fic archives. Friending solely to read a fic is a particular peeve of mine, but has nothing to do with this comm, which is asking about fics and *getting links to same*!!

I'd think authors would want their fics to be read, no?

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

In this case, it's a flocked journal, but the author says she'll friend back as long as people have an age statement. We just wanna make sure there's no toe-stepping.

I don't mind if people share fics by emailing hardcopies, and most authors don't mind. But again, we don't want to piss anyone off. Plus, the only problem I have with sharing hardcopy is having it show up somewhere under someone else's name. I can't tell you how often I've seen that, and there's a whole site devoted to outing people who steal fic and claim it as their own. For some reason, the always run to either FFnet or AFFnet. The dregs of fandom archives. lol Yeah, I have fic posted at AFF, what of it? ;-)

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

This came up a while back, too.

A fic writer had deleted her stories and asked they not
be distributed. Someone had saved them and said she had
them and a number of others asked for them to be sent
to them.

As a writer, I posted and commented that if the writer
deleted her fics, for whatever reason, and did not want
them to be read, then offering to send them out in an
open forum was rather uncool. The majority of posters
disagreed -- they wanted the stories and felt that was
the end of the discussion. But I still think an author's
wishes should be honored.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Basically I agree. At the same time, if a writer is writing fanfic, and posts it in an open forum, they can't lay claim to it. You can't stop someone from copying it. That said, though, I prefer to email the author and ask if it's possible to get a hardcopy straight from them. Most are very gracious about this. Plus, I'm brazen like that. I'd email the Pope if he had fic I wanted. lol

Still, I do believe that the wishes of the author should always be honoured. I gotta tell you though, people that delete or remove their fics in a GBCW snit piss me off. I know of a few that went from fanfic to published work, and deleted their journals to avoid hassle. In those cases, though, they had their fanfic posted to outside archives that were harder to link back to, so at least it was still available. But deleting it in a "taking my toys and going home" fashion...grrrrr.

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

Someone who knew the writer posted and, I believe,
said that she no longer was writing slash or fanfic
and didn't want what she had written to be distributed,
which was why she had deleted all of her stories. It
wasn't a snit kind of thing, but sounded like some
serious life change. But who knows?

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

The taking off in a snit, I wasn't talking about this particular writer. But I've known people who've done that. It just irks me when they do, cause chances are, they come back in a month or two and act as if nothing's wrong.

I commented to this particular writer, the one that prompted me to write this, and she was quite nice and accomodating. I'm thinking you misunderstood my previous comment.