[FFML] Warning to UK authors

[Eduardo Arancibia]

Amazing ... I'll be sure to keep my fanfiction, manga & anime out of my notebook when I travel. 

The world is going into the trashcan with the finance crisis and now to top it all we want to recreate the inquisition >.<


--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Doctor Nightfall <musko_no_kaji at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Doctor Nightfall <musko_no_kaji at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [FFML] Warning to UK authors
> To: "The Fanfiction Mailing List" <ffml at chez-vrolet.net>
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 9:48 AM
> > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 05:41:39 -0700
> > From: henry.cobb at gmail.com
> > To: ffml at chez-vrolet.net
> > Subject: [FFML] Warning to UK authors
> >
> > The Obscene Publications Act is alive again so if you
> live in the UK
> > be careful what you post under your own name or can be
> traced back to
> > you.
> 
> I read about this, and would like to point out that the
> Obscene Publications Act, these days, is used very much like
> the Profane Representations Act (Which has had, what, three
> uses in its whole history? And two of them were thrown out
> within five minutes of the case starting!) which is that
> it's only enforced if someone *wants* to use it, as in
> "It's GOT to be illegal somehow..."
> 
> So for the most part, we UK fanfiction types should be OK;
> that being said, we shouold still all be a little more
> careful, perhaps?
> 
> *****
> 
> 
> 
> What am I doing here
> 
> half asleep
> 
> and the rest of me
> 
> still in bed
> 
> making coffee
> 
> with tea bags...?
> 
> 
> "Ex hominibus fit! Dic omnibus!
> Soylens viridis EX HOMINIBUS FIT!"
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