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Date Posted: Thursday, January 27, 02:43:09am
In reply to:
Rose McCann
's message, "Legalistic Issues" on Thursday, January 27, 02:10:19am
>Did anyone know that there are a lot of people who
>would classify fanfic as copyright infringement? And
>that in theory, most civil courts would have to agree?
> Not that I have anything against fanfic in
>general.... but still.
>
>Now admittedly, most large companies, authors, etc.
>wouldn't be bad natured enough to slap anyone for
>writing fanfic, but it could feasibly happen. A lot of
>fanfic writers put up disclaimers as statements of
>good intent to circumvent that type of thing, although
>apparently even those might not hold up in court. I
>guess it's better than nothing, though.
>
>I have two points, or perhaps questions relating to
>this, which are the following:
>
>One, most story quizzes on this website that I have
>deigned to look at have absoloutely NO disclaimers
>anywhere at all on them. I'm sorry, people, but
>that's just BAD FORM.
>
>Two, I'm surprised that quizilla.com would want to get
>involved in possible litigation stemming from all of
>the fanfic. Isn't this site a commercial site? Or
>does quizilla have a way of dealing with that sort of
>thing?
>
> Has no one thought of this, or is there deeper logic
>at work here of which I'm unaware?
I don't think that quizilla can be held responsible for the stuff people post there.
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