Remember This:

[handful_ofdust]

Fascinating, calm and reasonable breakdown of where and how numbers-filing blurs into fanfiction and then past that into outright plagiarism, here (http://icarusancalion.livejournal.com/741394.html?format=light).

Also: Ha HA, God damn. Wonderful Charlie POV, yet another A/U branching off from the ending of 3:10 to Yuma, this one dealing head-on with the dicey issue of having to choose whether or not to live on without Ben: "Promised Land", by Bliss--Ben/Charlie, Charlie/William Evans (http://paragraph.livejournal.com/35405.html).

Comments

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

Heh. I dunno, the jargon used in any discussion of fanfic always makes my eyes go out of focus....Strange plagiarism case, though...

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I take it you know I write it, right? Amongst my other stuff.;)

[baggyeyes]

I made a pdf of the page so I could read it offline. I have trouble reading large blocks of text - after a point everything becomes another language to me. (Makes editing fun!)

It is an excellent argument. But how would that work in the copyright minefield? The Bronte work is in public domain, is it not?

Unless I read the text wrong - I do that with a brain made of swiss cheese.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

No, I think you have it right re the copyright issue. I've always wondered about my Gangs of New York stuff, since so much of that goes back to the Asbury book/"real history"...but no, since it branches off from the screenplay itself, we're still in the realm of sue-ability. Pity.

[ebcdic.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I find that kind of meta to be very interesting. Other times, I think a lot of it is so much effort for something that's supposed to be fun.

Also: Hee!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Hee! Indeed!;)

I really hope you're going further with that particular A/U, BTW...to quote baggyeyes, I think you're not finished. And by "think", maybe I mean "wish".

As for the meta, meanwhile--I guess I'm always trying to convince myself that I might somehow be able to turn at least some of this stuff I've been doing into a legitimately salable commodity; foolish, probably, since most of it takes off from stuff which is not in the public domain.

[ebcdic.livejournal.com]

I definitely see more in that little universe. I just have to find the time to organize my thoughts and write them down.

I try to convince myself of that as well but I've never been able to finish something that wasn't based on something else.