I believe copyright law should extend to fanfic, as it does to any other creative work of recent origin. But that will require a lot more action in courts around the world to settle.
Does it not occur to you that there are more issues at stake than copyright laws? When "The Ring of Soshern" was published, the internet didn't exist. Zines were sold at cons and through the mail, to at most a couple hundred of fans in-the-know, and slash fandom was as underground as it could possibly be. Some writers wrote under their real names.
It's wonderful to me that, given that history, Trek stories from the dawn of fandom are still coming online, scanned and proofed by volunteers, and with the explicit permission of the original author and/or artists. That's a rather different approach than "I want to read this story, someone scan it and put it online already!!"
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Re: Alien Brothers
Date: 2012-05-03 01:43 pm (UTC)Does it not occur to you that there are more issues at stake than copyright laws? When "The Ring of Soshern" was published, the internet didn't exist. Zines were sold at cons and through the mail, to at most a couple hundred of fans in-the-know, and slash fandom was as underground as it could possibly be. Some writers wrote under their real names.
It's wonderful to me that, given that history, Trek stories from the dawn of fandom are still coming online, scanned and proofed by volunteers, and with the explicit permission of the original author and/or artists. That's a rather different approach than "I want to read this story, someone scan it and put it online already!!"