Jules Jones

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a query to the fanfic folk
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This is a serious question, not sarcastic -- has it become acceptable in fandom to lift entire zine reviews by other people and insert them into Fanlore entries on those zines without bothering to notify the review writer, let alone ask their permission? Because one of the editors who has been merrily slogging away on the Blake's 7 entries appears to have decided that my zine reviews are public domain, and I'm Not Happy about this.

I don't care if it's credited to me (which it is), I still don't think it's acceptable behaviour, and if there's any more of it I may have to get a Fanlore account and start editing. Which is time I won't be spending on uploading my zines.

Mirror of http://julesjones.dreamwidth.org/233396.html, where it has received comment count unavailable comments.

The "fanfic folk" include people like me, and people who think that everything that can be electronically copied is free. "If it's on the Internet it's public domain".

So your answer, like that of the elves, is yes and no.

I know such people exist. But it did make me wonder whether they're now the dominant faction, to the extent that someone could be doing this on the grand scale on what I thought was a reputable wiki without her seeing anything odd about it. It's not as if OFTW's fanfic archive regards it as acceptable practice to go uploading any fanworks by other people you happen to admire, but maybe she thinks that Non-Fiction Is Different.