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Jan. 19th, 2004 01:57 pmAt various times since the invention of the printing press, there have been attempts to control what is printed on the page, especially when those pages are accessable by children, regardless of whether the works were created *for* children.
This weekend, we talked about the comic book codes of the 1950s, which is still in place for members, although it's been refined twice since its creation in 1954.
( Want to see the rules & regulations? Just click... )
So how many of those rules do we want to impose on fanfic and fanart? On the books available in a library? On the books in our local bookstores?
And what would the impact of A-3, A-10, B-2, B-4, B-5, Dialogue-2, Costume-1 and, of course, Marriage & Sex-3 be on a comic book version of, say, Goblet of Fire or Order of the Phoenix, or, in fact, a serialized verison of Prisoner of Azkaban?
Perhaps the reason we haven't been forced to endure an HP comic book serial yet is because there's no way it can comply with the Code.
This weekend, we talked about the comic book codes of the 1950s, which is still in place for members, although it's been refined twice since its creation in 1954.
( Want to see the rules & regulations? Just click... )
So how many of those rules do we want to impose on fanfic and fanart? On the books available in a library? On the books in our local bookstores?
And what would the impact of A-3, A-10, B-2, B-4, B-5, Dialogue-2, Costume-1 and, of course, Marriage & Sex-3 be on a comic book version of, say, Goblet of Fire or Order of the Phoenix, or, in fact, a serialized verison of Prisoner of Azkaban?
Perhaps the reason we haven't been forced to endure an HP comic book serial yet is because there's no way it can comply with the Code.
