Hypothetically curious
Dec. 5th, 2005 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI am curious about how people would react to a scenario, because I think most people feel very differently about their stories than I do (for instance, the whole remix thing, which I've ranted about before). But, assume that you are a writer (or, possibly, a vidder), and you see icons in a community, created for the fandom you wrote that story in -- and the icons use quotations pulled from your story. You are not credited for the text, no information is given about where the text came from. (You're also not a BNF in the fandom, and your stories aren't exactly the must-see or the famous ones out there, so few people would be likely to spot the familiar text and know where it came from -- that it's not some famous poem or song.) The iconmaker, however, demands both credit in keywords and to know which of her icons are used.
Or, say you made a vid that's very well-known, and you spot a series of icons that use the song you vidded to, and the same frames or clips associated with the specific lyrics that are quoted in the icon's text. The vid is never mentioned as inspiration, and you have no idea if the iconmaker was referencing your vid or it was just coinkydink.
Obviously this is a different kettle of fishies from using art for icons that you appropriated from a fan artist without their permission, or stealing vid clips, or plagiarizing a story, etc. And it's hard to prove the vidding connection at all, but you can point to fic text pretty easily and say, "that's mine." What sorts of feelings would a hypothetical scenario like this engender for you?
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Or, say you made a vid that's very well-known, and you spot a series of icons that use the song you vidded to, and the same frames or clips associated with the specific lyrics that are quoted in the icon's text. The vid is never mentioned as inspiration, and you have no idea if the iconmaker was referencing your vid or it was just coinkydink.
Obviously this is a different kettle of fishies from using art for icons that you appropriated from a fan artist without their permission, or stealing vid clips, or plagiarizing a story, etc. And it's hard to prove the vidding connection at all, but you can point to fic text pretty easily and say, "that's mine." What sorts of feelings would a hypothetical scenario like this engender for you?
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