Well, the best part is that selecting J.D. Salinger means that she is viewing all derivative work as equivalent to fanfic (which I've heard/read tons fo arguments both pro and con as to this reading). So for instance this viewpoint lumps Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea with my own James Eyre (which yeah I will totes enjyo for a second). But it's ALSO lumping the capitalist production model with the fan framework where we do what we do for love and not a paycheck, which is--something else again.
But that ISN'T fanfiction. I mean it is in the strictest sense of semantics I suppose, being arguably both fictional and written by a fan, but fanfiction is a specific thing and it is a fan-supported, NOT FOR PROFIT medium by nature. So... no, I don't think it qualifies in this case.
What I think it DOES do is exactly what the author of the article was aiming for and that's the vilify fanfic writers by making it seem like their work is a bigger threat to the original artists' work or livelihood than it really is. They mention money several time throughout and I find the idea that fanfiction reduces the amount of money an author can make on their work ridiculous, and quite possibly the opposite is more likely to be true considering how fandom unifies fans, spreads good word-of-mouth publicity, keeps fans excited during lulls and hiatuses...
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Date: 2012-04-20 11:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-21 03:57 pm (UTC)What I think it DOES do is exactly what the author of the article was aiming for and that's the vilify fanfic writers by making it seem like their work is a bigger threat to the original artists' work or livelihood than it really is. They mention money several time throughout and I find the idea that fanfiction reduces the amount of money an author can make on their work ridiculous, and quite possibly the opposite is more likely to be true considering how fandom unifies fans, spreads good word-of-mouth publicity, keeps fans excited during lulls and hiatuses...