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I'm always amused when fen get into a vast and righteous uproar about plagiarism. Not that there isn't a difference between writing a fanfic and posting someone else's story under your name, but when they go off about how stealing someone else's creative work without their permission is such a felonious deed, worthy of drawing and quartering at least, I can't help chuckling a bit.
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Date: 2 March 2004 12:04 pm (UTC)Tell tell
Date: 2 March 2004 12:27 pm (UTC)Re: Tell tell
Date: 4 March 2004 01:23 am (UTC)I just find myself thinking "and you asked the author before writing this fanfic?" I mean, as I said, I understand the point and the difference, but when people get deeply upset at the concept of a person using another person's creative work without asking ... er ... hello? Fanfic, anyone?