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• errolwi commented on FAQ: Fanfic
  There's-gonna-be-a-Laundry-movie-yay-yay-yay-yay-yay! Re-calibrate your sensors - Hollywood people have paid for the option, which makes the chances of one being made closer to 1% than 0%....
• Charlie Stross commented on FAQ: Fanfic
  Coltrane: Fanfic is for writers too insecure or unimaginative enough to come up with their own works Wrong, wrong, untrue, and you've got your wrong hat on. Off the top of my head, considering only the past three years, I know of one fanfic writer who won the Campbell award and was on the shortlist for the Hugo award for best novel, and another fanfic writer ("Firefly", anyone?) who merely got a Nebula nomination and the New York Times bestseller list. Both these fanfic writers are rather better known for their own series' of novels. (See if you can figure...
• Charlie Stross commented on FAQ: Fanfic
  Chris, my take on this is that it's entirely up to the production company -- should they, ahem, raise the money to actually go into production -- to police their rights. (At least, in the absence of a contract requiring me to police the rights on their behalf -- and it'd take an awful lot of arm-wrestling to get me to agree to such an obligation, as the only bait they've got is money: I can happily live without seeing a Laundry movie or TV series, not being in love with the screen.)...
• Charlie Stross commented on FAQ: Fanfic
  I disagree. She may feel attached to them, but the only way she can practically prevent other people from using them is to refrain from publishing. Once you publish, you're putting your ideas out in the cold open world at large, where people will misunderstand, misappropriate, and abuse them. Trying to assert control under those circumstances is an emotionally-motivated mistake, of the same class as arguing with reviewers. You can't control how someone perceives your fiction -- how they interpret it in their own head -- and to the extent that a pen and paper (or a computer screen) is...
• Charlie Stross commented on FAQ: Fanfic
  I'm already sufficiently traumatized by the cover paintings that my publishers put on my books that I don't think fan illustrations are going to do me any additional harm. (Forget the stuff you're familiar with like the US cover of "Saturn's Children" -- some of the covers on the translations are just, like, AAAGH!)...