At 06:42 PM 5/5/97 -0400, Nabiki Tendo <nabiki@nauticom.net> wrote:

At 03:16 PM 5/5/97 +0400, Birdboy wrote:

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(Someone has/had a map of the geog.locations of FFML'ers up somewhere, didn't
they? I don't recall..)

Yup.  Gary Kleppe.

http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/ffmapdoc.html

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Q3. Are the Japanese anime/manga creators aware of the fanfiction
   based on their works? 
   Were any comments made by them concerning western fanfiction?

Hmm, well any of them who ever travel to a con where we've got gophie in his
army b-danna and the fanfic panel sure would find out fast ^^ I wonder if
they'd run out screaming and ripping their hair out at the punning?

Only on the really bad ones (puns, that is).  :)

Well, would you rather they be ripping out their cell phones and preparing
lawsuits?  I'm not sure, but the way I heard it, manga/anime creators have a
"don't ask don't tell" policy towards fanfiction.  I can't possibly see how
they're _not_ aware of fanfiction based on their works, considering the volume
of works on the Net, but they probably just turn a blind ear (ehrm, so to
speak...) to such works.

After all, we _are_ committing copyright infringement here, are we not?

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