August 15th, 2007

07:03 am

elfwreck: Stop Calling Yourselves Criminals! - Repeat: FANFICTION IS NOT ILLEGAL. QUIT CALLING YOURSELVES CRIMINALS. . . . Copyright infringement is illegal. Is fanfiction "copyright infringement?" Plenty of authors think so. Plenty of fanficcers think so. But that doesn't make it true. -
(tags: copyright fanfic)
elaboration: Wait, what??I DONT KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED - Dear LiveJournal user elaboration,//[...]Therefore, as the policy you were suspended under is no longer in effect, your account has been unsuspended, and the restrictions on allowing you to create additional accounts on LiveJournal have been lifted. -
(tags: boldthrough2007 LJ)
theljstaff: [in lj_biz] Process Change for Non-Photographic Images - Today we're announcing a revision to the process of how we deal with reports of child pornography. (Please note: We *know* there's a difference between the vast majority of fan art and child porn. We're definitely not lumping these things together.) -
(tags: fanart boldthrough2007 LJ)
cesperanza: Oh, for the love of God-- - seriously, people, for the love of God, trying to get an even more problematic set of female-oriented LJ communities TOSed is just the worst kind of bullying -
(tags: LJ boldthrough2007)

beet: On LJ/6A and the recent crisis of TOS - LJ/6A CANNOT condone what fandom does. They may not openly give us the okay for something that they do not have the rights to--use someone of else's material for our own pleasure. -
(tags: boldthrough2007 LJ)

deianaera: The color of fandom - What does it mean to be a fan of color?//Well, my first instinctive response is to say, "The exact same thing it means to be a fan, period." My second response (of which I couldn't be prouder) is to say, "I'm a fan of all the colors in the Crayon Box, thanks." -
(tags: race fandom)

buggery: Hold that 'yay' -- everything is NOT suddenly okay. - Yays, LiveJournal/SixApart are being reasonable again! -- or are they?//Let's have a look. -
(tags: boldthrough2007 LJ fanart)

minisinoo: The Author is God, or avoiding the Runaway Story - Don't let the story rule you, the author. Talk back to you? Yes. Surprise you? Absolutely. Control you? No. IME, when the story controls the author (not the reverse) then 9 times out of 10, the whole endeavor is in serious trouble. -
(tags: writing)

heartofslash: Shocked, appalled, miserable. - And if you're happy to let that man who desires 5-8 year-old girls sit next to you, then you have to let that anorexic girl sit next to you as well.//That is free speech -
(tags: boldthrough2007 LJ)

akuma_river: Livejournal TOS/Ban News - Okay, I think that I've caught up on what's been found on lj_biz if anyone finds anything that needs to be up here, let me know -
(tags: boldthrough2007 LJ)

lavendertook: IBARW//Remorse, Regret, Racism, and Respect Within and Without Fandom. - Thoughts on the D_D mods responses to the miscegenation discussion and LJ's responses to fandom -
(tags: race fandom)

aervir: Oh, for crying out loud! - I really don't care for the tone of some of the petitioners (who talk about anorexics in a patronizing or downright rude manner). However, a few replies to this metafandom post on the topic just made me wail and gnash my teeth -
(tags: LJ fandom gender)

minisinoo: IBARW: Bringing the Native Funny - Blogging against Racism can sometimes get heavy. That's not to say it's not a heavy issue, or people shouldn't be serious about it. Lord knows, I'm serious about it in a lot of other places. But here, I thought I'd bring the funny, instead. -
(tags: race)

perfica: The State Of Affairs In The Blogging Universe - How does this 'social networking site' compare to others? -
(tags: LJ)

kaiz: The Trouble With User-Generated Content - So, in my opinion, this isn't solely about fandom, as in "LJ/6A hates fandom, they want us to leave". It's more that fandom does generate a lot of unruly content, and unruly content scares the shit out of advertisers and hosting companies. -
(tags: boldthrough2007 LJ)

perseph2hades: "I'm sorry, did you say the apocalypse is here?" - Getting pissed off and yelling back at LJand demanding accountability does not kill fandom and doesn't mean we're ruining the fun. It just means we respect ourselves enough to not want to be treated like trash. Don't care how explicit the pornography was -
(tags: fandom LJ)