I'm going to pretend that you're not doing this to poke subtle fun at me. Because I trust you. Really <g>.
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?"
As we saw in "Once More With Feeling" you can specifically state things -- in words with music attached -- that you cannot state without the music without sounding hopelessly, derivatively, horribly bad. The words one chooses for songs are therefore by structural nature different than the words one chooses for novels. So, in that case it would be like the art: An interesting interpretation, a different way of viewing.
What about poetry based on or "inspired by" your stuff? You wouldn't want to read it?
No, I probably wouldn't. But that would partly be because of the various types of less than professional words on the 'net, the ones that cause me -- this is me, curmudgeon, crank, grouch -- intense personal wincing pain is the poetry. If someone professional wrote poetry based on it? I probably wouldn't be able to tell what its source was. So I wouldn't care, at that point.
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? :)
This would be, I believe, considered either "satire" or "parody". You may remember that in open filks, both Thomas and I had a penchant for the Serious songs (and that I made folkmew sing "Lullabye for a Weary World" on every possible occasion, which would be anytime I laid eyes on her and she could actually hear me). So, no, I would not sue you, and yes, I would be amused because it is you, but I'd still probably ask MEW to sing "Lullabye". Well, or Light Sailor, which I heard once and have been obssessing about recently :/.
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Date: 2004-10-19 04:45 pm (UTC)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?"
As we saw in "Once More With Feeling" you can specifically state things -- in words with music attached -- that you cannot state without the music without sounding hopelessly, derivatively, horribly bad. The words one chooses for songs are therefore by structural nature different than the words one chooses for novels. So, in that case it would be like the art: An interesting interpretation, a different way of viewing.
What about poetry based on or "inspired by" your stuff? You wouldn't want to read it?
No, I probably wouldn't. But that would partly be because of the various types of less than professional words on the 'net, the ones that cause me -- this is me, curmudgeon, crank, grouch -- intense personal wincing pain is the poetry. If someone professional wrote poetry based on it? I probably wouldn't be able to tell what its source was. So I wouldn't care, at that point.
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? :)
This would be, I believe, considered either "satire" or "parody". You may remember that in open filks, both Thomas and I had a penchant for the Serious songs (and that I made