Everyone knows Rowling and Meyer's stance on fanfiction and the fact both writers have gegeben a thumbs up of sorts. However, there is something I don't think either one of them would of approve of and it involves those Reading the Books a lot of people are supposedly writing. I say supposedly Schreiben because copying from another persons work is not Schreiben unless Du are quoting under fair use. And boy... every single Lesen the Bücher I've come across is not in fair use and constitutes plagiarism. I know how to write one that doesn't constitute plagiarism, but I'll save that until the end.
One of the arguments I've seen is that it is just fanfiction so it doesn't matter if they are committing plagiarism and copyright infringement in their stories because it is just for fun. However, when Du Veröffentlichen something to the net it is not just for fun anymore. When a person is found out to have plagiarized the rest of their work will come under Frage about whether oder not it is also stolen oder not. That is unless your a really young writer who hasn't yet learned what plagiarism is and then people are Mehr willing to give Du a Sekunde chance. This is because plagiarists tend to be serial in what they do rather then sticking to just one piece.
The Sekunde argument is that fanfiction can't be called out for plagiarism because it is a copyright issue and to call fanfiction out on a copyight issue is to call into Frage the entire work as fanfiction uses copyrighted material. I am going to point out here that copyright infringement and plagiarism are two different things. Copyright infringement means Du used the material without the persons permission and plagiarism means Du stahl, stola the persons work and passed it off as your own. For example, Du can plagiarize Shakesphere and any of the other works that have fallen into public domain. Since no one has the copyright nobody can take Du to court for plagiarizing the work because it is the copyright holder that gets the money in a lawsuit.
The third argument comes from the fact some people believe disclaiming the work means Du haven't committed plagiarism and Du can't get in trouble for plagiarism. link ]Plagiarism.org[/url] puts it well. Under their Liste of things that are considered plagiarism it lists ”copying so many words oder ideas from a Quelle that it makes up the majority of your work, whether Du give credit oder not (see our section on "fair use" rules)”.
So how much is to much? Some people may remember their teachers telling them that if their work is thirty percent oder less then the writer is within fair use. I'm going to point out that this is for essays and not creative writing. There isn't an exact percentage, but it should be under one percent of your work when it comes to copyrighted material and even that can be too much as two to four lines per chapter is also an added limit. So what does this in fact mean? It means that the majority of the Lesen the Bücher fanfics consitute plagiarism.
Some may say, but I paraphrased the Bücher so I should be fine. Here is another quote from the site I gave Du from the list. It includes, “changing words but copying the sentence structure of a Quelle without giving credit” and the whole copying to much from the original Quelle in fact also counts despite having changed the wording around and paraphrased the work And here some people may be thinking, but I use the characters so that is plagiarism right? Nope. As I've said, copyright infringement is different from plagiarism.
The disclaimers may not save Du when Du take the actual words, but when Du admit to borrowing the concepts from the Bücher your covered. Unless of course the writer decides to not allow people to write fanfiction for their stories and they are going to push vorwärts-, nach vorn their right to be the sole person to create derivative works off their work. The exception to the rule is parody as parody is protected under fair use.
The Lesen the Bücher issue is an epidemic and it isn't restrained to just the Harry Potter and the Twilight fandoms. A lot of people claim that banning Lesen the Bücher stories from sites infringes upon their freedom of speech oder their creative freedom forgetting that what they are doing is infringing upon the rights of someone they are supposed to be a Fan of in the first place. Those who write Lesen the Bücher oder support them in some manner are in the wrong, not the site admins, not the writer nor the people calling them out for what they are doing.
That said, it is possible to write an actual Lesen the Bücher fanfic. I refuse to call the stuff that I've been finding fanfic because as I've pointed out, copying someone else work is not writing. Some people are probably thinking it is impossible, but then they are not thinking outside of the box.
Avoid quoting and paraphrasing the work. Particularly don't do it on sites where copying is not allowed at all. Du can write sentences like “Lily read the book until she got to what a brat her sister's son was.” Do not fill your work with the above sentences but instead make each chapter a focal point around one of these sentences. For example, Lily might storm over to her sister and lecture her about how to properly take care of kids for one chapter.
Some people may say, but that defeats the purpose of the Lesen the Books. As I am going to point out, the stuff that is being put out is not Schreiben but is instead all over the place. The writers are throwing jokes left and right and the works are unfocused, not to mention so many of them are exactly the same because they are following the same restrictive structure rather then actually thinking outside of the box.
I look vorwärts-, nach vorn to seeing a legit Lesen the Bücher fanfic made, because it will showcase the writers potential a whole lot Mehr rather then the writer relying on another writers words as a crutch. So, while I'll defend the idea behind the Lesen the Book fanfic I refuse to defend the ones that have been deleted from sites for obvious reasons. Support the writers of Lesen the Bücher who are doing the right thing instead of the ones who aren't.
One of the arguments I've seen is that it is just fanfiction so it doesn't matter if they are committing plagiarism and copyright infringement in their stories because it is just for fun. However, when Du Veröffentlichen something to the net it is not just for fun anymore. When a person is found out to have plagiarized the rest of their work will come under Frage about whether oder not it is also stolen oder not. That is unless your a really young writer who hasn't yet learned what plagiarism is and then people are Mehr willing to give Du a Sekunde chance. This is because plagiarists tend to be serial in what they do rather then sticking to just one piece.
The Sekunde argument is that fanfiction can't be called out for plagiarism because it is a copyright issue and to call fanfiction out on a copyight issue is to call into Frage the entire work as fanfiction uses copyrighted material. I am going to point out here that copyright infringement and plagiarism are two different things. Copyright infringement means Du used the material without the persons permission and plagiarism means Du stahl, stola the persons work and passed it off as your own. For example, Du can plagiarize Shakesphere and any of the other works that have fallen into public domain. Since no one has the copyright nobody can take Du to court for plagiarizing the work because it is the copyright holder that gets the money in a lawsuit.
The third argument comes from the fact some people believe disclaiming the work means Du haven't committed plagiarism and Du can't get in trouble for plagiarism. link ]Plagiarism.org[/url] puts it well. Under their Liste of things that are considered plagiarism it lists ”copying so many words oder ideas from a Quelle that it makes up the majority of your work, whether Du give credit oder not (see our section on "fair use" rules)”.
So how much is to much? Some people may remember their teachers telling them that if their work is thirty percent oder less then the writer is within fair use. I'm going to point out that this is for essays and not creative writing. There isn't an exact percentage, but it should be under one percent of your work when it comes to copyrighted material and even that can be too much as two to four lines per chapter is also an added limit. So what does this in fact mean? It means that the majority of the Lesen the Bücher fanfics consitute plagiarism.
Some may say, but I paraphrased the Bücher so I should be fine. Here is another quote from the site I gave Du from the list. It includes, “changing words but copying the sentence structure of a Quelle without giving credit” and the whole copying to much from the original Quelle in fact also counts despite having changed the wording around and paraphrased the work And here some people may be thinking, but I use the characters so that is plagiarism right? Nope. As I've said, copyright infringement is different from plagiarism.
The disclaimers may not save Du when Du take the actual words, but when Du admit to borrowing the concepts from the Bücher your covered. Unless of course the writer decides to not allow people to write fanfiction for their stories and they are going to push vorwärts-, nach vorn their right to be the sole person to create derivative works off their work. The exception to the rule is parody as parody is protected under fair use.
The Lesen the Bücher issue is an epidemic and it isn't restrained to just the Harry Potter and the Twilight fandoms. A lot of people claim that banning Lesen the Bücher stories from sites infringes upon their freedom of speech oder their creative freedom forgetting that what they are doing is infringing upon the rights of someone they are supposed to be a Fan of in the first place. Those who write Lesen the Bücher oder support them in some manner are in the wrong, not the site admins, not the writer nor the people calling them out for what they are doing.
That said, it is possible to write an actual Lesen the Bücher fanfic. I refuse to call the stuff that I've been finding fanfic because as I've pointed out, copying someone else work is not writing. Some people are probably thinking it is impossible, but then they are not thinking outside of the box.
Avoid quoting and paraphrasing the work. Particularly don't do it on sites where copying is not allowed at all. Du can write sentences like “Lily read the book until she got to what a brat her sister's son was.” Do not fill your work with the above sentences but instead make each chapter a focal point around one of these sentences. For example, Lily might storm over to her sister and lecture her about how to properly take care of kids for one chapter.
Some people may say, but that defeats the purpose of the Lesen the Books. As I am going to point out, the stuff that is being put out is not Schreiben but is instead all over the place. The writers are throwing jokes left and right and the works are unfocused, not to mention so many of them are exactly the same because they are following the same restrictive structure rather then actually thinking outside of the box.
I look vorwärts-, nach vorn to seeing a legit Lesen the Bücher fanfic made, because it will showcase the writers potential a whole lot Mehr rather then the writer relying on another writers words as a crutch. So, while I'll defend the idea behind the Lesen the Book fanfic I refuse to defend the ones that have been deleted from sites for obvious reasons. Support the writers of Lesen the Bücher who are doing the right thing instead of the ones who aren't.
I don't want to hear about Harry Potter oder any other book right now. I'm not setting this up for a Debatte about which is better. I just want to know seriously and honestly why Du Twilight Fans enjoy Lesen Twilight. I want to see an actual reason that Twilight is a good book.
If Du don't like Twilight, I don't want to hear Du saying anything bad about it. I just want to know why people like it. Because all the debate's I've seen have no actual reasons. They have HP Fans and Twihards going on about which book is better, but not why they like it.
I do actually want respectful Debatte though. I want to discuss the reasons Du give, but nicely.
If Du can't be respectful of each other's opinions then just don't comment.
And I'm not trying to hate on Twilight, but if I disagree with Du I will Debatte with you.
I don't know if there are other debate's about this, so I'm sorry if there are, but I didn't look.
I'm just rambling now so let's get onto it!
If Du don't like Twilight, I don't want to hear Du saying anything bad about it. I just want to know why people like it. Because all the debate's I've seen have no actual reasons. They have HP Fans and Twihards going on about which book is better, but not why they like it.
I do actually want respectful Debatte though. I want to discuss the reasons Du give, but nicely.
If Du can't be respectful of each other's opinions then just don't comment.
And I'm not trying to hate on Twilight, but if I disagree with Du I will Debatte with you.
I don't know if there are other debate's about this, so I'm sorry if there are, but I didn't look.
I'm just rambling now so let's get onto it!
(I didn't include plot, good characters, etc. because those are automatically included)
1. POTATO.
2. pirates
3. ninjas
4. An awesome pirate/ninja fight
5. Swords (preferably celestial bronze)
6. Closets (for Edward to hide deep inside)
7. giraffes
8. YOUR FACE
9. YOUR MOM
10. YOUR MOM'S FACE
11. Butterflies
12. Chuck Norris
13. Jet-packs
14. kittens
15. strip poker :D
16. hand lotion
17. Sue Sylvester
18. sherbet
19. 20 fagott players :D
20. SNICKERS
21. Jedis
22. Druids :D
23. FREE ICE CREAM
24. A monkey called Jeeves who occasionally slaps Bella
25. YOU.
1. POTATO.
2. pirates
3. ninjas
4. An awesome pirate/ninja fight
5. Swords (preferably celestial bronze)
6. Closets (for Edward to hide deep inside)
7. giraffes
8. YOUR FACE
9. YOUR MOM
10. YOUR MOM'S FACE
11. Butterflies
12. Chuck Norris
13. Jet-packs
14. kittens
15. strip poker :D
16. hand lotion
17. Sue Sylvester
18. sherbet
19. 20 fagott players :D
20. SNICKERS
21. Jedis
22. Druids :D
23. FREE ICE CREAM
24. A monkey called Jeeves who occasionally slaps Bella
25. YOU.
Is it just me, oder does it seem like most of the Twilight Fans feel that they have to write in capitol letters to get their points across? Personally i find it really annoying.
It's also a fact that if Du write in capitol letters IT TAKES LONGER FOR THE BRAIN TO PROCESS THE INFORMATION and therefore takes longer to read. Originally all the road signs (In England anyway) were written in capitol letters, until they were redone and someone found that smaller case letters were quicker to read. So they changed it.
So Weiter time Du feel like shouting because your book sucks, don't write in capitols, but put...
*shouting*... at the begining of your speech.
Thank you. That is all.
It's also a fact that if Du write in capitol letters IT TAKES LONGER FOR THE BRAIN TO PROCESS THE INFORMATION and therefore takes longer to read. Originally all the road signs (In England anyway) were written in capitol letters, until they were redone and someone found that smaller case letters were quicker to read. So they changed it.
So Weiter time Du feel like shouting because your book sucks, don't write in capitols, but put...
*shouting*... at the begining of your speech.
Thank you. That is all.