From what I can see about 50 Shades Of Grey, what seems to be most irritating about it is that is that the fanfic got pulled off the web when it got published. But, no doubt, the publisher insisted. As they insist is wasn't fanfic with the serial numbers sexily filed off (of course, some stern but loving editing could make it even more different, but hey). I thought the Jezebel article (this) was more weird than the book seemed to be. It just seemed--well, I feel I've read better fanfic, and some of it was published, but self-published, and I feel bad for that author.
I read an article/essay recently on how this is actually a common thing in Twilight fandom: writers of popular stories frequently file off serial numbers and sell them to epresses/self publish them. This has caused a backlash of people saving and putting stories in a public DB. It's all very foreign to me, fannishly, but Twilight is one of the "feral" fandoms, where huge (up to 70%) numbers of people have it as their first fandom, with no real connection to fandom-as-an-entity.
Suela, was it you or Rivka who linked to that? Or the AO3 comm?
Did Cassandra Clare basically do the same thing? I mean write an au fic and then "file off the numbers" and publish it.
Is Cassandra Claire also the person who plagiarized a Draco/Harry fic from a BtVS fic, and other sources, or am I getting mixed up?
I'm pretty sure that's her, only she said she wasn't plagiarizing, I think she either claimed she forgot where she heard the quotes or it was a "game"
I just found someone's research paper on fan campaigns, heavily quoting Buffistas.org posts from Joss, Tim, Me, and misquoting Kristen as Kiba, over and over.
The student is now at Syracuse, writing a dissertation on Joss Whedon's fandoms.
The paper is from 2007, but I really can't stop this horrible itch I have to correct her citation.
Should I ignore it, or email her?
I think you should email her.
Link to it because we're very curious? And definitely email her--how freaking hard is it to properly identify a poster when you can copy and paste!!
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It looks like undergrad work. Boy, was I a BIG JERK. Well, I still am, little bit.
But there's a whole quote of me yelling at fans to not send apples to Fox so we won't "look like asswipes."
This is my contribution to academia, ladies and gents!
In fact, whenever Kristen wants me to walk away from a fandom kerfuffle before I go fanwank, she reminds me of the apples.
