Mission Plug and Beta Request

Mission Plug and Beta Request by Miah on 2010-06-29 07:00:00 UTC

Someone dealt with it! by Elorie on 2010-06-30 23:23:00 UTC Reply

Yay! And applause to your agents to endure this monstrosity of badfic! Poor Holmes, what happened to your integrity, moral values, character... *weeps*

Re: Yikes. by Miah on 2010-06-30 02:51:00 UTC Reply

I was meaning for it to be a sort of final evaluation. If they handle the mission well (or as well as agents typically handle them) then they get to move into an RC.

I'm went back and made that clearer.
That was my thought, too. by Calista on 2010-06-30 02:48:00 UTC Reply

I didn't think the nurses would like it, either, but you can't say "no" to the Flowers very easily, and if the agents in question aren't going to keel over dead, the Flowers might even make the argument that "the continuum is more important than the agents" (which probably explains at least some flamethrower incidents).

I also wanted to ask about your disclaimer, Miah: The idea of parody fanfic (like PPC missions) not violating copyright law, while regular fanfic technically does (and gets away with it because nobody's making money and the owner of the work doesn't care), seems odd to me. But I wouldn't be surprised if the law really is that convoluted.

Re: That was my thought, too. by Miah on 2010-06-30 03:52:00 UTC Reply

I borrowed that disclaimer from IndeMaat's last story. I think it is aimed at the author of the badfic, really, because in the case of Sherlock Holmes, the original is in the public domain, so there was no copyright violations in using the characters.

Of course, the whole issue of parody/satire really is bizarrely convoluted in American law, so it might even apply to regular fanfic, which is weird, but possible. I once read a law brief that argued that Mary Sue fanfic falls under the fair use clause because the intentional kick butt Mary Sue is a parody of say an all male kick butt cast. It wasn't an actual case, just a case study type thing done by a law student, but it did highlight for me how weird the fair use laws are. (No, I don't have the link any more, sorry.)