Very emphatically no
Apr. 12th, 2011 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danceswithgaryJust like a lot of people, I get aggravated at times when fanworks are deleted, but this is a terrible idea.
ETA: I might grumble every time I go through my rec lists and have to remove 'lost' fics, but as an author/artist I support the right to remove the work (as much as anyone can with webarchives out there). I have thousands of fics saved to my hard drive, but that's as far as they go. I have one file I know can be distributed, but I avoid telling people I have it because the last time I sent out over 200 copies from a storyfinders post :-/
There are so many different reasons for fanworks or journals or blogs to have been deleted and every one is legitimate even if you don't like it because that person owns those items and it's their right to do what they like with them. If the creator has explicitly said they don't mind copies being distributed, that's one thing, but that shouldn't be the default action or assumed to be the case.
Personally, I think it's rude and entitled to override the creator's wishes and, if that becomes the accepted practice, there may be fewer people willing to put their work out there because of the 'once you post you no longer own it' attitudes they encounter in the fannish community. In addition, sharing the work against the creator's wishes might end up causing them a problem - financially, emotionally, socially, in their home or at work.
Their work - their choice.
ETA: I might grumble every time I go through my rec lists and have to remove 'lost' fics, but as an author/artist I support the right to remove the work (as much as anyone can with webarchives out there). I have thousands of fics saved to my hard drive, but that's as far as they go. I have one file I know can be distributed, but I avoid telling people I have it because the last time I sent out over 200 copies from a storyfinders post :-/
There are so many different reasons for fanworks or journals or blogs to have been deleted and every one is legitimate even if you don't like it because that person owns those items and it's their right to do what they like with them. If the creator has explicitly said they don't mind copies being distributed, that's one thing, but that shouldn't be the default action or assumed to be the case.
Personally, I think it's rude and entitled to override the creator's wishes and, if that becomes the accepted practice, there may be fewer people willing to put their work out there because of the 'once you post you no longer own it' attitudes they encounter in the fannish community. In addition, sharing the work against the creator's wishes might end up causing them a problem - financially, emotionally, socially, in their home or at work.
Their work - their choice.
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Date: 2011-04-14 12:26 am (UTC)On the other hand, as a person who has come into some parts of this later than others, I really wish authors would leave some bread crumbs to let newbies know what's going on. Taking all of your stuff offline without leaving a "sorry, not doing this anymore and don't share my stuff if you have it" doesn't give honorable folk anything to point to.
And... well, I've seen people take their things offline and often wonder what leads to that. If someone has been in a fandom for any length of time and then they disappear, it's like, "What the f*** happened?" Did they just get tired of it all, did they get 'bit' by a troll, did someone in their life express negative feelings... I don't know... mostly just curious....
But, yes. You're right...