Snowflake Challenge Day 12
Jan. 13th, 2014 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cziI'm gonna skip ahead to day twelve now, but no worries! I'll go back and fill in the rest... when I have time. ;_;
In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. What are your hopes and dreams for fandom? Do you have any predictions about what the next five years holds for fandom?
I'm actually a bit excited for what the future holds for fandom. I mean, what is Wicked but Wizard of Oz canon backstory fic? What's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (and all related books) but a read-through with added undead? I think we'll see a lot more of that sort of story (and more original writings from authors who ground their fingers down on fic first) as time goes on. Perhaps it's only my perception, but it seemed like when I first got into fic (because I couldn't stand the canon pairings in Slayers and Inuyasha any longer and I really wanted to see what everyone else thought of Weiß Kreuz and Yoroiden Samurai Troopers as well) that the medium as a whole wasn't as accepted. Now it's possible that I just wasn't looking in the right places - and honestly there weren't convenient aggregate sites like FFN and AO3 really up and running - but I treasured those hidden corners of the internet where I found people who felt the same.
Art and vids are both harder and easier to bring into the mainstream. Harder because some copyright holders are cracking down on anyone who uses even a snippet of something they own, it seems, but easier because of places like tumblr and youtube and vimeo. I don't mean to imply that copyright holders should let anyone just use their works, but the blanket virtual cease and desists on videos that use one clip of music or a single shot from a movie are a little ridiculous (in my opinion, of course). Of course there is a line that shouldn't be crossed - full movies, for example - but most fanvids don't come anywhere near it.
Art doesn't seem to have caught much of the brunt of that kind of crackdown but, conversely, sometimes it probably ought. If you're selling (for example) Edward Cullen bodypillows, I'd really like to know whether you're paying licensing fees for his image (likely not). It's not that I want to stifle creativity - by all means, make yourself a pillow, show people how to do so - but don't make money off copyrights you don't own and aren't licensing. It's especially bad when the work being used isn't from a major company that can fight a legal battle over one item on etsy or the like. I just hope that those elements of fandom wise up to how they're actually hurting the ones they're trying to honour.
I seem to have gone off on a rant there. Happy thoughts! Puppies and kittens! Tea and coffee! (All better now?)
In any case, my most fervent hopes for fandom are that it just keeps on keeping on. The abundance of art and vids and fics and everything makes me happy to see. I love it when the will of the fans can alter the course of canon (Touhou and, to a lesser extent, Night Vale) and while I hope always that Word of God stays unimpeachable, I'm glad to see that even creators can bend an ear and recognise brilliant ideas when they hear them. Creators gonna create, whether that's original or fanworks, and I'm gonna sit here and proudly be a part of it all.
In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. What are your hopes and dreams for fandom? Do you have any predictions about what the next five years holds for fandom?
I'm actually a bit excited for what the future holds for fandom. I mean, what is Wicked but Wizard of Oz canon backstory fic? What's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (and all related books) but a read-through with added undead? I think we'll see a lot more of that sort of story (and more original writings from authors who ground their fingers down on fic first) as time goes on. Perhaps it's only my perception, but it seemed like when I first got into fic (because I couldn't stand the canon pairings in Slayers and Inuyasha any longer and I really wanted to see what everyone else thought of Weiß Kreuz and Yoroiden Samurai Troopers as well) that the medium as a whole wasn't as accepted. Now it's possible that I just wasn't looking in the right places - and honestly there weren't convenient aggregate sites like FFN and AO3 really up and running - but I treasured those hidden corners of the internet where I found people who felt the same.
Art and vids are both harder and easier to bring into the mainstream. Harder because some copyright holders are cracking down on anyone who uses even a snippet of something they own, it seems, but easier because of places like tumblr and youtube and vimeo. I don't mean to imply that copyright holders should let anyone just use their works, but the blanket virtual cease and desists on videos that use one clip of music or a single shot from a movie are a little ridiculous (in my opinion, of course). Of course there is a line that shouldn't be crossed - full movies, for example - but most fanvids don't come anywhere near it.
Art doesn't seem to have caught much of the brunt of that kind of crackdown but, conversely, sometimes it probably ought. If you're selling (for example) Edward Cullen bodypillows, I'd really like to know whether you're paying licensing fees for his image (likely not). It's not that I want to stifle creativity - by all means, make yourself a pillow, show people how to do so - but don't make money off copyrights you don't own and aren't licensing. It's especially bad when the work being used isn't from a major company that can fight a legal battle over one item on etsy or the like. I just hope that those elements of fandom wise up to how they're actually hurting the ones they're trying to honour.
I seem to have gone off on a rant there. Happy thoughts! Puppies and kittens! Tea and coffee! (All better now?)
In any case, my most fervent hopes for fandom are that it just keeps on keeping on. The abundance of art and vids and fics and everything makes me happy to see. I love it when the will of the fans can alter the course of canon (Touhou and, to a lesser extent, Night Vale) and while I hope always that Word of God stays unimpeachable, I'm glad to see that even creators can bend an ear and recognise brilliant ideas when they hear them. Creators gonna create, whether that's original or fanworks, and I'm gonna sit here and proudly be a part of it all.
