From the front page of fanfiction.net
May. 5th, 2005 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sailorhathorFound this on the front page of www.fanfiction.net:
In addition, FanFiction.Net would like to address a growing problem. For whatever reason, some writers feel it's okay to copy-n-paste musical lyrics they have not written into their fiction. If you did not write it, do not post it. This has always been our policy. Please remove these entries immediately to avoid account closure.
That's stupid. The entire idea of fanfiction violates copyright. Their entire site is based on posting many things none of us, technically, came up with. We're all on borrowed time, and at any time, if some big company decided they didn't want us writing fanfic anymore, they could shut us all down in a heartbeat. BUT, posting lyrics in an already copyright-violating story is WRONG! The rest of the site, OKAY! But that, WRONG!
Helloooooo, ever heard of songfics?
Where is the logic in this rule?
Stoopid.
I write fanfiction myself, as you probably know, you reading this (you, there!), and I loooove to mingle song lyrics in with my stories and titles and such. I will not make myself stop doing this because of this dumb rule. Honestly, I doubt they'd even catch me; they have too many members to keep up, unless someone reported me. But if they did, meh. Who cares. I put the stories up on my sites too. :P
In addition, FanFiction.Net would like to address a growing problem. For whatever reason, some writers feel it's okay to copy-n-paste musical lyrics they have not written into their fiction. If you did not write it, do not post it. This has always been our policy. Please remove these entries immediately to avoid account closure.
That's stupid. The entire idea of fanfiction violates copyright. Their entire site is based on posting many things none of us, technically, came up with. We're all on borrowed time, and at any time, if some big company decided they didn't want us writing fanfic anymore, they could shut us all down in a heartbeat. BUT, posting lyrics in an already copyright-violating story is WRONG! The rest of the site, OKAY! But that, WRONG!
Helloooooo, ever heard of songfics?
Where is the logic in this rule?
Stoopid.
I write fanfiction myself, as you probably know, you reading this (you, there!), and I loooove to mingle song lyrics in with my stories and titles and such. I will not make myself stop doing this because of this dumb rule. Honestly, I doubt they'd even catch me; they have too many members to keep up, unless someone reported me. But if they did, meh. Who cares. I put the stories up on my sites too. :P
