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

[fishbaum.livejournal.com]

I've really been trying to stay out of this whole issue -- I've got a free account, never really thought about paying, and my main "fix" is text-only.

But....

Anyone who thinks that fandom is under the radar now is mistaken. Henry Jenkins is only the most visible of the academics who has spent time publishing about fandom. Hell, I did my Master's thesis in library school on Simon & Simon fandom!

Copyright is a slippery concept, changing all the time in the law, and in reaction to evolving technologies. And that's not to mention in the sensibility of studios and creators pissing off their fannish bread-and-butter.

Ah, I remember fondly (not!) the old Starsky & Hutch zines pubbed with no names or identifying features at all. I remember the Star Wars S&M cease & desist letters from Lucasfilm.

As someone else said (either in this thread or the one Mickey cited), if we all put this amount of angst, time, and energy into real-life poverty, war, civil rights issues, I'd feel more confident about people's desire for making the world a better place.

Basically, I guess I'm saying the Attorney General bit won't kill fandom, LJ/6A won't kill fandom, more influential minds than ours are already entangled in the evolution of intellectual propoerty rights, so... um... push your energy into either feeding the hungry, or writing porn. :)

[nopseud]

Yeah. Someday the sky might actually *be* falling, but I don't think today is that day.