A published piece of work- art, writing, or otherwise, ceases to "belong" to the creator once it is put in the public view. The only rights the creator retains are those of copy. The right to pass it on to friends, stand on a street corner and say it sucks, or roll it up and smoke it, belong to those who have purchased the work. Or, in the world of fanfic, the readers.
If I save a fanfic on my harddrive, the author has no more right to tell me to delete it than the author of a book has to tell me to set it on fire once I have bought it. You share something with the world wide web, you accept the consequences. And those consequences include that it may, in fact, become a permanent accounting of how you used to spend your time. Why do you think people use psuedonyms for godsake?
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Date: 2006-10-28 02:39 am (UTC)If I save a fanfic on my harddrive, the author has no more right to tell me to delete it than the author of a book has to tell me to set it on fire once I have bought it. You share something with the world wide web, you accept the consequences. And those consequences include that it may, in fact, become a permanent accounting of how you used to spend your time. Why do you think people use psuedonyms for godsake?