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Date Posted: 15:25:00 05/16/07 Wed
Author: Pixie
Subject: A warning.

Have any of you received an invitation to join the new sponsored fanfiction archive at Fanlib? If you have, (or even if you haven't, because at this point they have open sign ups and anybody can register and archive fanfiction there), please be very very careful about getting involved. Why? Because they're setting themselves (and even more, anybody who posts their stories there) up for all kinds of legal trouble.

Please, if you're considering this, read a couple of posts about the archive first. Here are some good ones I've been following.

Angiepen has an excellent look at Fanlib's TOS agreement (which you have to agree to to get an account) here.

Here's another good post on the subject. Make sure you read the comment trail.

And Cofax7, a rather well-known fandom name (though not, probably, to JAG fans), has an excellent post here.

There's more commentary, since fandom (at least the Live Journal portion of it) is fairly up in arms about the whole idea. So if you're interested in more information, just say so and I'll post more links. For now, three's probably enough, and I'd say that if you only read one of those it should definitely be angiepen's TOS commentary, because that? Is pretty scary stuff.

I've browsed the JAG section at Fanlib, and I already see a few authors I recognize, though I doubt they're really aware of the risk they're taking by getting involved in this venture. I can't stop anybody from signing up and archiving there, but I can put out the warning so that, if you do sign up, you're doing it with your eyes wide open about what you're getting yourself into.

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Thanks for the links. Interesting to see a Moonves attached to the project. I think everyone is right to be cautious of these venture capitalists who see an opportunity to profit off of fanfic. (NT) -- lska, 19:23:30 05/16/07 Wed
I totally agree with everything! We shouldn't post there! (NT) -- Deborah Brady, 20:03:57 05/16/07 Wed
Thanks for the heads-up, Pixie. I too had one of their 'invitations' in my mailbox, went to take a look, shuddered at the complete ugliness of the site (blech) and left. I admit that I wouldn't have looked as closely at the motivation of such a site; I actually went a little blue-eyed into the whole world of fanfiction to begin with, so I'm glad you pointed it out. (NT) -- Colie, 09:18:02 05/17/07 Thu
- It is ugly, isn't it? I'd been there once or twice before fandom blew up over it, and to be honest, I was surprised anybody would want to archive there. It's blaringly annoying. (NT) -- Pixie, 20:14:26 05/17/07 Thu
  - Yup, overwhelmingly so!! It seems there is quite some deprecation and contempt toward fanfiction.net - but at least their site design is simple and clean! (NT) -- Colie, 05:10:27 05/18/07 Fri
I noticed the vast majority of the people running that site are heavily involved in the entertainment, i.e. TV and movies, business - and some of them are lawyers. I'd be very leery of posting there. (NT) -- Ann, 22:37:01 05/17/07 Thu
- Saves them the trouble of actually hiring writers. They can just steal our stuff and we can't do a damned thing about it. (NT) -- Theresa, 20:23:38 05/18/07 Fri

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