wherein Liz is peeved at people who don't understand basic courtesy

[edenfalling]

Quick post from the library before my session runs out and I have to go in to work. (BW was sick after all.)

So a couple days ago, lady_songsmith discovered that a new blogger named Narnian Caparison had started posting pdf anthologies of Narnia fanfic... without either asking permission or notifying the authors whose stories she collected and published. Three of my stories -- "By the Sword," "Heart's Desire," and "Little Sister" -- are in her Book One file. Also, she stripped out most or all italics (which she says is an artifact of the downloading process), and removed all author's notes and other contextual information (because she says she wants to keep the reading experience "'in the game,' so to speak").

You can find more information in this post by rthstewart.

I have written to Narnian Caparison (who seems to be the same person as xaipre), and gotten back an unsatisfying response. So I have asked her to remove my three stories from her Book One pdf file.

We shall see what happens.

(Please do not get crazy either here or on her blog or journal. I have no computer right now and cannot moderate anything.)


ETA, 10/15/11: More here via lady_songsmith. Also, you can find other people's unproductive conversations with Narnian Caparison here on her 'Welcome' page. (She seems to have a very strange idea of fandom history, which may be related to her earliest experiences being in Twilight fandom, which is apparently a law unto itself. *shrug* She also has a pattern of responding to things people have not actually said and ignoring the issues we are actually attempting to raise. *sigh*)

Also, Narnian Caparison has not responded to my request that she remove my stories from her pdf. (I can understand why she hasn't removed them -- that is most likely a time-consuming process -- but surely a response is not too much to ask?) She really does not seem to give a damn who she offends, nor to consider that authors are people as much as readers. I find that extremely rude, especially for someone who claims to enjoy the stories we produce so much that she wants to share them with the entire internet.

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Her thought process seems to go, "If I ask permission to publically archive these stories, the writers will pull them off the net in retaliation. Oh noes! What about my right to read the stories?" and completely miss that nobody asked her not to download them, or threatened to delete them. We just wanted to know where our stories were posted, and not have them altered. :-(