A fanfiction archive

[GhostWay]

Yeah, I know the cartoon would be fanfiction. However, DCS has approved of it, so I don't see much issue there. I just feel that fanfiction, in general, isn't proper without the artist's consent.

Yes, this is a bleeding crazy opinion and would end up in added hassle for the author and fan-author.

However, I do think a fanfiction archive could work, as long as it were approved by DCS and submissions are monitored and approved by a trustworthy fan or fans for appropriateness (and only approiateness, not quality or grammar or content, but merely whether it's proper for the audience), instead of anyone being able to post whatever they want.

That is, of course, provided anyone will write stories for it. I think having an archive when there's really no content to put in at this point is kinda silly. And besides, isn't that what the "fanworks" forum is for, anyway?

[Foxhound]

I think its a good idea (though keep the pornographic one off...I havent seen it, but it sounds pretty bad)

It would be interesting to see what fans make of it.

[Ranma-chan]

if i get board enough and someone asked i would be more than happy to write a fan fic on ozy and millie...but that wouldnt be on my mind till december

[Gizensha]

copyright infringment:
I'm not very good with copyright-nese.

Please, allow me to offer my opinion on copyright law as it currently stands.

Current copyright laws, especially in the US, are a joke.

As a concept, they are a neccessity. The current implementation of the concept, however, is a joke. And I don't have a clue how to reform copyright law to make it a non-joke.

Anyway. Back to the morality of fanfics.

I think the majority of fanfics that I like/haveread/write (not that I've written a fanfic for years. Which reminds me. I was in the middle of a random little original fic, where the hell did I put that piece of paper?) have simply used the world, not any of the characters, from the series.

RE Fanon: It's a rather painful and complex topic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanon_%28fiction%29 has a bit of an explanation. Within Doctor Who, however, things just get bloody bizare in the late 80s and 90s, and even continues today, where to a gradually increasing extent, fandom took over Doctor Who's official production.

At first, it's only that the late eighties occasionally saw someone who grew up with Doctor Who writing episodes. When Doctor Who got cancelled, all hell broke loose. Fandom practically wrote every New Adventure and BBC novel (and audio drama) in the 90s, and 00s, to the point that now it's been revived, more or less all the major writers on the series have been Doctor Who fans. What this means is that fanon is being integrated into the canon (which was messy beforehand, I mean - are the books canon? Are the audio dramas canon, are the comic strips canon, which version of Shada canon (smart money's on "both"), are the scripts that were written for Season 23 pre-hiatus but never made after hiatus because they decided to go with the Trial of a Timelord S23 instead canon? Are the S27 scripts that were never made canon? Did the Pertwee UNIT stories take place in the 1980s (as indicated during them) or the 1970s (as indicated in a 1980 story where it turns out the Brigadier retired in 1976), which of the three contradictary tellings of the sinking of Atlantis is canonical?)

[osprey]

This is a hard one for me. I can understand both sides of the equation, but I must say I lean toward go for it, simply because it is exactly what it is named: FAN-fiction. Purely unofficial, just an interesting trifle to read without detracting from the main story. Whenever I read fanfiction, I enjoy it, but I remember that it's not part of the main story, and therefore, I don't let it interfere with the real story.

However, there are those who tend to like to take it overboard. Those who write totally out of character, and therefore make it seem that you are reading about completely different characters with the same names. And then there are the twisted ones...I noticed mention of a pornographic fanfiction for O&M...that is not even fanfiction to me, that is the twisted fantasy of a sick ****.

Copyright issues...hmm. As long as DC is aware of it, and she doesn't voice any objections to it, I see it as perfectly legal, as long as no money is being made off of it. I don't know much about US copyright laws, but I know here in Canada, things like fanfiction are usually fine as long as no money is made off of it.

I personally wouldn't mind fanfiction made off of characters I create, as long as they stay within the bounds of common sense. I'll definitely read O&M fanfics if DC approves, but I personally couldn't write any as I don't feel I could properly capture the complete personalitites of characters that aren't mine.

[Miles E Traysandor]

Sounds like this thread is already well on its way to the depths of Post Hell. Personally, it's fine, but leave the controversial stuff out of it. 'Nuff said.

[gen200]

Sounds like this thread is already well on its way to the depths of Post Hell. Personally, it's fine, but leave the controversial stuff out of it. 'Nuff said.

I agree with Miles.

Please, stop, I just want to know what you think this could do for the fandom, not debate over copyright issues and/or fanfiction's morals.

I just want to hear what you think of the idea.