conversant: The Ethics of Fan Fiction
These conversations I’m finding are all linked to links to reactions to the original. I got here from the link below, and Lee Goldberg’s journal was the other one I couldn’t remember that I’d seen before, so if you’re that interested in the wankery you can google him. Lee writes tie-in novels for “Diagnosis Murder” so I’m not real sure whether fanfiction’s really that much of a concern for him. If I ever wrote fic for Diagnosis Murder, pretty much the only audience I’m aware of would be my mom, since I’ve only ever seen an episode of it at her house. Ditto Matlock. And that Chuck Norris thing where he’s a Texas ranger, and he sings his own theme song, though singing is not really what’s happening there. Based on what I’ve seen of that show, Chuck has this condition where the muscles in his face don’t work, resulting in not-singing and not-smiling. But I don’t know that, so don’t quote me on it.