let me get out my grumpy pants, oh wait, what's that, I'm wearing them

[jmtorres]

Found via boing boing; an sf writer who I presume is not familiar with creative fandom as we know it wrote Ender's Game (plus assorted references) fanfic and was disappointed that publishers back out/wanted him to file the serial numbers off.

*facepalm*

Comments

[rydra_wong]

And is asking for money for it.

Also, dear god, displaying all the literary subtlety of an anvil to the head. 1950s SF is frequently racist! Orson Scott Card is a scary bigot! WHO KNEW. NO ONE HAS EVER DARED POINT THESE THINGS OUT BEFORE.

Obviously those publishers turned him down because they just couldn't handle the truth, man.

*rolls eyes*

[jmtorres]

I keep trying to figure out how I would explain what a totally different perspective we have and the thing is, yeah, it may be an entitled perspective to think that one's words should automatically be worth money, but in a lot of ways, a lot of fanfiction writers' perspective is self-effacing, self-erasing. I don't think he's living in the legal reality as we know it, but he might be living in an ideal reality.

I sort of want to drop him a link to the OTW and be like "so if this causes you any legal problems, look them up" because it might be useful to have a test case with someone so brazen?

[rydra_wong]

You know about the Peter Watts story? Equally brazen, but an infinitely better story (and one that the writer knows is fanfic). I think someone did drop him a link to the OTW -- there was certainly discussion of it.