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Oh, fandom wank, thou comest to me in my darkest hour and dost bring me naught but joy and much mocking merriment. *glee*
Oh, fandom wank, thou comest to me in my darkest hour and dost bring me naught but joy and much mocking merriment. *glee*
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Good thing Lucas doesn't care who or what uses his characters or for what purposes, right?
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becuase, there is no WAY they can let this one go by. Aside from the fact of how blatent it is, this is the beginning of a slippery slope here; if they don't knock her down, and knock her down hard, soon, other people, enboldened by her getting away with this, will be doing it too. And from there, it'll spread to other fandoms... *shivers at the horrible image of Hermione-Sue fics on sale at Amazon*
So now, the question is, will she realize that she made a mistake or will she resist? If it's the first, this will be over relatively quickly; her bank account won't be too happy, but she can probably survive it. If she resists, however... It won't be pretty.
My money's on the second option; It sounds like she's already convinced herself that what she's done is legally all right, and that she'll protest when the legal notices start showing up in her mail.
Of course, I could be wrong, but, with stupidity like this... well, we'll see.
And one last comment:
"The Wank is strong in this one."
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I haven't had the chance to read through all of the comments there but apparently there is indication on that thread that Lucas' lawyers are already on this.
The girl was just stupid to not realize what she was doing is wrong. It sort of baffles me that anyone could be that stupid - especially because (from what I've been told) she works in publishing - you'd think she'd have some knowledge of copyright laws!
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Think she'll use the money for her legal bills?
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I love fandom wank.
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Really sounds like "Just for my family and friends" now, doesn't it?
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In either case, I'm absolutely voting her in as "Stupidest fanfic writer of 2006."
Yeesh.
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SHOULD read: Or only that she *tried* to get them to sell it?
Sorry. It's just embarrassing to be ragging on someone else's crappy writing while making dumb-ass mistakes yourself. LOL!
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And she's already won the award... (http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004162.html)
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She wanted to have the feeling of being a published author and in the process she did something extremely stupid that might ruin any public reputation she ever dreamed of having. Especially if she was actually planning on being an original published author later in her life.
Also, um... hi >.>
I'm a fan of your art, and a lurker supreme. Rearing my head up for this 'cause something like this has actually happened where I live and almost came to legal blows.
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Yeah, if she were a young, inexperienced writer. But this lady is the co-founder of a poetry publishing company, has written instruction manuals in the past, and claims to work as a book editor. In other words: she should REALLY know better! That's why people are coming down on this so hard. If she were just a misinformed first-time author, people still might have laughed, but they probably wouldn't take it out on her like that.
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She's still damn stupid, and harmful to herself and to the fandom (if Lucas' lawyers choose to do a fandom crackdown on the major fan sites).
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On a completely unrelated note. Can I just say how much I love the commissioned art you did for the Twilight Lexicon. It is just so spot on! Bravo!
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^_^ Heeeee. I can't waaait 'til this blows up her in face. *evil glee* It may flog us smart fanficcers FOREVER,but at least we get to observe the carnage...Yeeees...*bounces up and down while cackling*
*is entirely too amused by this*
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1/ deluded
2/ terminally stupid
3/ suffering from a giant case of hubris
4/ quixotic enough that she thinks she can take on Uncle George and win
5/ Sixteen years old
6/ 1 and 2
7/ 3, 4, and 6
8/ all of the above
OMG, the idiocy of fandom has hit a new nadir. The stupidity is monumental in that one!