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vagabond_sal...
mightygodking was recently banned from LJ for copyright violation.
You knowmightygodking. You do. He's the mind behind the improved_archie comm, and that absolutely brilliant re-lettering of the Civil War mini. (You remember, the one that you wished was carried in stores in place of the original.)
mightygodking is a credit to fandom. He is a skilled and accomplished parodist (to my eternal envy), and parody is, of course, a legally valid form of interrogating the text.
Unless you are on LJ, and then it seems to be a bannable offense.
Asvagabond_sal says:
It seems to me like this is a pretty clear case of LJ saying that they won't recognize the validity of transformative interpretations of texts, which—that's what fandom is all about, no? That's how we keep the fuzz off our backs. Is it just me, or does anybody else see this as a declaration that fandom doesn't have a friend in LJ/SA?
...I think that this is something that fandom needs to talk about--it's no longer a question about us being moral/immoral, it's about fandom not being wanted on LJ, full stop, and I think we as a community need to talk about this before things degrade any further.
He's not wrong, guys.
vagabond_sal...mightygodking was recently banned from LJ for copyright violation.You know
mightygodking. You do. He's the mind behind the improved_archie comm, and that absolutely brilliant re-lettering of the Civil War mini. (You remember, the one that you wished was carried in stores in place of the original.) mightygodking is a credit to fandom. He is a skilled and accomplished parodist (to my eternal envy), and parody is, of course, a legally valid form of interrogating the text.Unless you are on LJ, and then it seems to be a bannable offense.
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vagabond_sal says:It seems to me like this is a pretty clear case of LJ saying that they won't recognize the validity of transformative interpretations of texts, which—that's what fandom is all about, no? That's how we keep the fuzz off our backs. Is it just me, or does anybody else see this as a declaration that fandom doesn't have a friend in LJ/SA?
...I think that this is something that fandom needs to talk about--it's no longer a question about us being moral/immoral, it's about fandom not being wanted on LJ, full stop, and I think we as a community need to talk about this before things degrade any further.
He's not wrong, guys.