insanity continues to spread

[mickeym]

For those of you who are much better at following and engaging in discussions of the whole fannish culture than I am (which would be pretty much all of you *g*), if you haven't seen it, you should go here and read the post, and the comments.

Someone has gotten the California Attorney General's office involved in the whole LJ/6A-fandom mess.

I'm...boggled.


*Link courtesy of giogio.

Comments

::sigh::

[ro-anshi.livejournal.com]

I have been in some form of organized fandom since dinosaurs roamed the earth 1973. What has kept us (relatively) safe all these centuries has been our ability to fly under the radar. 50 zines sold at a con in Tulsa weren't easily going to attract a copyright-holder's attention, thus it was extremely unlikely that how fast-and-loose fanfic technically plays with rights of ownership would ever become a litigious issue.

The internet has made us more obvious. (Duh. I found my last few fandoms with the help of Google - a far cry from the networking days of meeting someone in line at a movie or at a con and swapping addresses, and HOPING that would be a decent hookup.) But, still, WE NEED TO FLY UNDER THE RADAR. It can still be done; but not when folks poke authorities they feel are on "our" side, when that could bring attention to us from authorities who are NOT on our side.

Fandom, fandom, fandom. Grow a clue and a sense of history before you start threatening my crack. Then again, if we have to go back underground, I used to put out pretty wicked print fanzines. ;)

(BTW, everyone's talking these days about net content being so SHOCKING, but I can tell you I saw some things in print zines Back in the Day that made my eyes POP almost as much as Pondy's art that started this whole latest kerfuffle....)