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heidiAnswers to the questions Aja asked me last week:
No. When I started thinking about writing fanfic, I used LEXIS to find legal articles on the topic, among them![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rivkat's wonderful article about fanfiction, fair use and the copyright act.
I felt absolved before I even had a chance to get a tremendous guilt trip about it. But if I didn't feel legally comfortable with it, I wouldn't've done it - I won't use Kazaa to get anything that the copyright owner hasn't said is ok to trade.
Well, right now it's the fact that I broke the park, and while a bunch of wonderful people are being damned helpful in fixing it, I still broke it.
Generally, though, I don't find it frustrating, per se, except when people don't read the ToU or the Newbie's Guide. I got an email from someone today saying that the place was so confusing and they didn't understand how it worked at all. So I asked if they ever read the newbie's guide, which is linked to from the FRONT page of the site, all the pages in the park and all the reviewboard pages, as well as various other places too - and they didn't respond at all. I mean, if you click on NEWBIE'S GUIDE then click on the obvious I'M NEW - WHAT DO I DO thread, which is here, you at least get SOME idea of what's going on?
Right?
I am proud of, and absolutely in heaven over, everyone who contributes to FA either on staff or as an ementor or as a niffler or as a discussion-poster or as a reviewer. Really, there is something on FA for everyone - even people who can't spell (they need to go to lumosdissendium.org!)
What I'd like to change is the submission-upload process, but the amazingnostrademons, along with Paul, Jason, Heather, Jeff, sjbranford and others, are doing great work in making that so much better. I really loff what it's going to be, later this year. After that, I don't think there's anything I'll want to change, in terms of structure or setup.
From Evita (can this count as only one, please?):
OFFICER
Statesmanship is more than entertaining peasants
EVA
We shall see, little man
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Some folks dream of the wonders they'll do before their time on this planet is through.
- Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
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To build a tower up so high to a cloud you'll anchor
Build it one tiny brick at a time.
Bucks multiply till a bum's a banker
Just begin with a thin silver dime.
That empty feild it can yeild miles and miles of flowers;
You don't need no magic powers
Just a seed and showers,
From the floor to the sky
You can soar if you're wise enough to climb
One brick at a time.
- Barnum - and yes, I know this too was more than once sentence - it's 3 or 4, but it, embarrasingly enough, is one of my perpetual get-up-and-go songs. This has replaced
I need a place to spend the day,
Where no one says to go or stay,
Where I can take my pen and draw
The girl I mean to be.
- The Secret Garden
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It's hard to find parent-to-child songs that aren't full of loud - or at least quiet - desperation, but I've taken to singing (albeit badly) from Guys & Dolls to my boys:
Music I can wish you
Merry music while you're young
And wisdom when your hair has turned to gray ...
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And lastly, about Miami in general... you choose:
1. God, it's hot up here!
- Sunday in the Park With George
2. And now the sun is climbin' high,
Rising fast on fire,
Glaring down through the gloom,
Gone the gray, I say.
- Secret Garden
Yes, he does - his name is Jeff and he used to date a friend of Aaron's and we're still miserable about the fact that they broke up...
We met in NYC at the Paramount at Madion Square Garden in the summer of 1994 - 9 years ago next week, actually, at a UJA "meet market" - I was in NY for the weekend for a bachelorette party, rehersal dinner and wedding - and he worked in NYC for Proskauer, and was on the event committee with my friend Rhonda. I was attending with Rhonda, my ex-roommate Stephanie, and various other friends - Aaron had had a date with Rhonda earlier in the summer, but she wasn't interested - he was, though. Over the course of the evening, Aaron and I were talking, once he realised that Rhonda was flirting with everyone but him, and we had a great time.
End of the evening, Rhonda said that she had to find our friend Stephanie, as Steph was staying at Rhonda's apartment - so we went looking and then...
Aaron found himself with an armful of happily hysterical Stephanie, who was yelling, "Aaron! Aaron!"
He was baffled.
Once she disentangled herself, she explained that Aaron had been her babysitter about 12 years prior, before her parents got divorced and she moved out of the neighborhood (side note: Aaron is 5 years older than the three of us).
So... the evening was over, Aaron gave me his card, and we got in a cab to head off - Stephanie asked me if I liked him, I noted that I thought he was cute, but I was dating someone else at the time - a fellow law student in DC - and wasn't *really* interested in a long distance relationship.
But by November, I'd broken up with the boy, and Aaron had broken up with some girl, and Stephanie took it upon herself to set us up.
We went out on a group dinner, then a slightly smaller group expedition to Tatou, then desert for two at Cafe Lalo's on the upper west side.
And I was wholly smitten.
We got engaged 13 months later and married nine months after that.
And that
Is the State of the Art...
No. When I started thinking about writing fanfic, I used LEXIS to find legal articles on the topic, among them
rivkat's wonderful article about fanfiction, fair use and the copyright act. I felt absolved before I even had a chance to get a tremendous guilt trip about it. But if I didn't feel legally comfortable with it, I wouldn't've done it - I won't use Kazaa to get anything that the copyright owner hasn't said is ok to trade.
Well, right now it's the fact that I broke the park, and while a bunch of wonderful people are being damned helpful in fixing it, I still broke it.
Generally, though, I don't find it frustrating, per se, except when people don't read the ToU or the Newbie's Guide. I got an email from someone today saying that the place was so confusing and they didn't understand how it worked at all. So I asked if they ever read the newbie's guide, which is linked to from the FRONT page of the site, all the pages in the park and all the reviewboard pages, as well as various other places too - and they didn't respond at all. I mean, if you click on NEWBIE'S GUIDE then click on the obvious I'M NEW - WHAT DO I DO thread, which is here, you at least get SOME idea of what's going on?
Right?
I am proud of, and absolutely in heaven over, everyone who contributes to FA either on staff or as an ementor or as a niffler or as a discussion-poster or as a reviewer. Really, there is something on FA for everyone - even people who can't spell (they need to go to lumosdissendium.org!)
What I'd like to change is the submission-upload process, but the amazing
nostrademons, along with Paul, Jason, Heather, Jeff, sjbranford and others, are doing great work in making that so much better. I really loff what it's going to be, later this year. After that, I don't think there's anything I'll want to change, in terms of structure or setup. From Evita (can this count as only one, please?):
OFFICER
Statesmanship is more than entertaining peasants
EVA
We shall see, little man
Some folks dream of the wonders they'll do before their time on this planet is through.
- Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
To build a tower up so high to a cloud you'll anchor
Build it one tiny brick at a time.
Bucks multiply till a bum's a banker
Just begin with a thin silver dime.
That empty feild it can yeild miles and miles of flowers;
You don't need no magic powers
Just a seed and showers,
From the floor to the sky
You can soar if you're wise enough to climb
One brick at a time.
- Barnum - and yes, I know this too was more than once sentence - it's 3 or 4, but it, embarrasingly enough, is one of my perpetual get-up-and-go songs. This has replaced
I need a place to spend the day,
Where no one says to go or stay,
Where I can take my pen and draw
The girl I mean to be.
- The Secret Garden
It's hard to find parent-to-child songs that aren't full of loud - or at least quiet - desperation, but I've taken to singing (albeit badly) from Guys & Dolls to my boys:
Music I can wish you
Merry music while you're young
And wisdom when your hair has turned to gray ...
And lastly, about Miami in general... you choose:
1. God, it's hot up here!
- Sunday in the Park With George
2. And now the sun is climbin' high,
Rising fast on fire,
Glaring down through the gloom,
Gone the gray, I say.
- Secret Garden
Yes, he does - his name is Jeff and he used to date a friend of Aaron's and we're still miserable about the fact that they broke up...
We met in NYC at the Paramount at Madion Square Garden in the summer of 1994 - 9 years ago next week, actually, at a UJA "meet market" - I was in NY for the weekend for a bachelorette party, rehersal dinner and wedding - and he worked in NYC for Proskauer, and was on the event committee with my friend Rhonda. I was attending with Rhonda, my ex-roommate Stephanie, and various other friends - Aaron had had a date with Rhonda earlier in the summer, but she wasn't interested - he was, though. Over the course of the evening, Aaron and I were talking, once he realised that Rhonda was flirting with everyone but him, and we had a great time.
End of the evening, Rhonda said that she had to find our friend Stephanie, as Steph was staying at Rhonda's apartment - so we went looking and then...
Aaron found himself with an armful of happily hysterical Stephanie, who was yelling, "Aaron! Aaron!"
He was baffled.
Once she disentangled herself, she explained that Aaron had been her babysitter about 12 years prior, before her parents got divorced and she moved out of the neighborhood (side note: Aaron is 5 years older than the three of us).
So... the evening was over, Aaron gave me his card, and we got in a cab to head off - Stephanie asked me if I liked him, I noted that I thought he was cute, but I was dating someone else at the time - a fellow law student in DC - and wasn't *really* interested in a long distance relationship.
But by November, I'd broken up with the boy, and Aaron had broken up with some girl, and Stephanie took it upon herself to set us up.
We went out on a group dinner, then a slightly smaller group expedition to Tatou, then desert for two at Cafe Lalo's on the upper west side.
And I was wholly smitten.
We got engaged 13 months later and married nine months after that.
And that
Is the State of the Art...
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Date: 2003-07-29 06:48 pm (UTC)Bah! Where were you people when I was taking Media Law and trying to write a term paper on this? LEXIS had nothing but Napster, perhaps it was just too early. ;)
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Date: 2003-07-29 06:55 pm (UTC)There were no cases about fanfic then, and there are none now. Not unless you include The Wind Done Gone, that is...
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Date: 2003-07-29 07:08 pm (UTC)I think I ended the whole thing with a comic strip. It's been a few years now.
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Date: 2003-07-30 04:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-30 06:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-30 06:24 am (UTC)But, but, but...
Date: 2003-07-30 06:26 am (UTC)Re: But, but, but...
Date: 2003-07-30 06:52 am (UTC)With THEM, George.
My hem, George -- three inches off the ground!
And then this monkey? And these PEOPLE, George!
Oh! Look! Fandom_Wank!
Date: 2003-07-30 08:24 am (UTC)Re: Oh! Look! Fandom_Wank!
Date: 2003-07-30 08:39 am (UTC)We're random.
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Date: 2003-07-30 11:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-30 03:43 pm (UTC)I'm glad you shared it!!
love, lore
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Date: 2003-07-30 05:34 pm (UTC)I blame the bar exam, which was yesterday and today, for distracting them - and probably for why they said thwey wouldn't send them again until august.
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Date: 2003-07-30 05:46 pm (UTC)