[FFML] Mercedes Lacky reverses stance on Fanfiction

[William C. Lathan III]

YAY!!!

Bob Schroeck wrote:
>> What was her problem with fanfictions in the first place ???
>>     
>
> Well, it was more her agent than her, but basically it was the
> standard, reasonable motivation -- protect her rights to her own
> work.  Just... a little more energetically -- some say
> draconically -- than other authors might.  In particular she was
> strongly influenced by an incident where a fan writer managed to
> force Marion Zimmer Bradley to scuttle an entire Darkover book
> by threatening a lawsuit over a similar idea to one she used in
> her fic.
>
> However, she and her agent now feel that a Creative Commons
> license protects her rights sufficiently to allow unfettered
> fan creativity.
>
> Which, as my readers have just pointed out to me, means that I
> now have to write the long-moribund "Drunkard's Walk I".  Argh.
> <grin>
>
> -- Bob
>
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> Bob Schroeck          http://www.eclipse.net/~rms           rms at eclipse.net
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> Then the horns kicked in...
> ...and my shoes began to squeak.
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