Recently I've known a bit more of plagiarism in the English-speaking fandoms... It is rather frustrating - I felt myself faced with the Spanish Inquisition. :) Forbidden... Prohibited... And even paraphrasing can be considered plagiarism (c)... And if we speak about doujinshi, fanart and fanfiction it turns into some kind of twisted hypocrisy, which my brain can't cope with. I like somethind. A lot. Movie, book, anime - it doesn't matter - I want to do something about it: to write, to draw, to translate, to make a scanlation. Without any profit. Just to have fun together with my friends and soul mates. That's all, nothing more. Is it really so hard to live just having fan, doing something you really like - writing, drawing, translating - and sharing your joy with friends without being accused of doing something illegal?.. I speak only about hobbies, of course (but it sounds pretty tempting in different ways though... ). Speaking of Cassie's Draco it's the very amusing point for me. Some time ago I've written two rather big fanfics in the Russian HP fandom, where a lot of extracts from my favorite books, famous Russian movies dialogues and significant phrases were presented. And nobody accused me in plagiarism. Of course, I informed my readers beforehand about this and we all together had been playing this literary quest... And now I see how serious this topiŃ abroad... I'm really scared. So - it's another mentality, isn't it? (Or just Middle Ages I've mentioned early ^_^). People shouldn't be so terribly serious about such a smallest things. In one condition: if it's not dealt with money matters - here I'm completely with you. But we don't make money from our trans-scan-lation, do we? So let just have fun!
...I've found omake you've spoken about. *gets ready for another scanlation* :)
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on 2006-05-19 08:00 pm (UTC)I like somethind. A lot. Movie, book, anime - it doesn't matter - I want to do something about it: to write, to draw, to translate, to make a scanlation. Without any profit. Just to have fun together with my friends and soul mates. That's all, nothing more.
Is it really so hard to live just having fan, doing something you really like - writing, drawing, translating - and sharing your joy with friends without being accused of doing something illegal?.. I speak only about hobbies, of course (but it sounds pretty tempting in different ways though... ).
Speaking of Cassie's Draco it's the very amusing point for me. Some time ago I've written two rather big fanfics in the Russian HP fandom, where a lot of extracts from my favorite books, famous Russian movies dialogues and significant phrases were presented. And nobody accused me in plagiarism. Of course, I informed my readers beforehand about this and we all together had been playing this literary quest... And now I see how serious this topiŃ abroad... I'm really scared. So - it's another mentality, isn't it? (Or just Middle Ages I've mentioned early ^_^).
People shouldn't be so terribly serious about such a smallest things. In one condition: if it's not dealt with money matters - here I'm completely with you.
But we don't make money from our trans-scan-lation, do we? So let just have fun!
...I've found omake you've spoken about.
*gets ready for another scanlation* :)