I have a different reaction to non-written things based on my work.
I've only slightly considered songs I've written based on others' stories "fanfic" but your rumination has made me think about this a bit more. In your example, someone else put music to your lyrics, but they were still your words. If someone wrote a song based on one of your characters or stories, would you consider it fanfic? Even if it's a straight-ahead plot summary (don't like those kinds of songs myself), it would still be a point of view different from yours because it's not your writing, isn't it? And if the summary is not what you thought you wrote, wouldn't that be a case of "hey, they wouldn't do that or it didn't go there?"
What about poetry based on or "inspired by" your stuff? You wouldn't want to read it?
While I've always considered these songs I wrote derivative works (fun panel at the Toronto Worldcon last year, btw) and have yet to have a negative reaction by the author, I try to be very sensitive to both their preferences and legal position in this matter.
So would you sue me if you found out I wrote and performed a song about Kallandras doing the horizontal mambo with (fill in the blank)? Or would you simply not want to hear it? Or would you want to hear it but not read it? :)
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Date: 2004-10-19 04:29 pm (UTC)I've only slightly considered songs I've written based on others' stories "fanfic" but your rumination has made me think about this a bit more. In your example, someone else put music to your lyrics, but they were still your words. If someone wrote a song based on one of your characters or stories, would you consider it fanfic? Even if it's a straight-ahead plot summary (don't like those kinds of songs myself), it would still be a point of view different from yours because it's not your writing, isn't it? And if the summary is not what you thought you wrote, wouldn't that be a case of "hey, they wouldn't do that or it didn't go there?"
What about poetry based on or "inspired by" your stuff? You wouldn't want to read it?
While I've always considered these songs I wrote derivative works (fun panel at the Toronto Worldcon last year, btw) and have yet to have a negative reaction by the author, I try to be very sensitive to both their preferences and legal position in this matter.
So would you sue me if you found out I wrote and performed a song about Kallandras doing the horizontal mambo with (fill in the blank)? Or would you simply not want to hear it? Or would you want to hear it but not read it? :)