Arguments Against Fanfiction

Being that when someone’s writing is published it can turn into a movie or a TV series. take a look at The Mortal Instruments By Cassandra Clare. the first book was turned into a movie, but that plan didn’t go quite well, so they turned the whole book series into a TV Series. The people who play the character’s would never be able to if Cassandra Clare didn’t write The Mortal Instruments. Not to mention all the new TV series would not be if not for the writers who create every single new episode. I mean come on! Who doesn’t love a good show about love or adventure? A show about twin sisters who take two different paths. A show about a about Merlin and how he came to be known. So much comes from writing. For the most part, writing is, and creates

The duration of copyright determines the length of protection. Limitations on this length exist to ensure works enter the public domain. Therefore, the length of protection is one of the most relevant and debated issues regarding copyright law. The proponents and opponents of copyright term extension make compelling arguments, but both sides agree that copyright law should encourage creativity and innovation. If Disney is successful in once again lobbying for an extension of duration, a substantial number of works will fail to enter the public domain in a timely manner. This will, consequently, lead to a stifling of creativity and a suppression of innovation that could be detrimental to progress in the realms of science and the useful arts.

“Oh my God! He was right over there! Closer than I’d been to him when Paul laid into him. Much closer. And Rashad was looking at me, too. I locked eyes with a kid I didn’t know, but felt like I did” (309).

Fictional works can reveal powerful messages that can sway the audiences opinions to think a certain way. Some materials included in fiction such as obscenity, racism and violence can have a negative influence on people who view it regardless of their knowledge of it being fake. If a fictional novel was written based on someone that a majority people can identify from the book, people can potentially associate that person with the stories in the novel regardless of the fictional label. Even if the things that were said about individuals are not always necessarily harmful and said with evil intent, individuals still deserve their right to privacy. (Prechel,

“The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence and “The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson provide two contrasting uses of Setting in a short story which accentuate the importance of the element in a story. One author has the ability to distract the reader, while the other author creates the structure of the story.

Authors and publishers believe that the book industry will disintegrate through the implementation of a “fair use” system on copyright material. Authors, publishers and booksellers instigate that if recommendations for “fair use” were enacted, there would be negative ramifications on Australia’s creative content and will discourage local investment. In the Sydney Morning Herald’s article “Writers and publishers voice opposition to new copyright proposals”, Steger (2016) states ‘removal of restrictions will cut prices and accelerate supply. The so-called "fair use" system allows use of some material without payment to copyright holders’. Steger (2016) emphasises that the implementation of a copyright reform to adopt the US system of “fair use” would promote a potential fall in jobs in the sector and discourage investment. Steger (2016) also goes on to highlight the economic instability Australia’s creative content may face, instigating that a ‘fair use’ system would “destabilise an industry that contributes $7.4 billion to the Australian economy” (Appendix 2).

The second approach to copyright is the democratic approach. All works of art are ideas built on a foundation of other ideas. The democratic approach advocates that intellectual property belongs to the society and should be available for the general good of the public. If the particular usage is intended to derive financial benefit or any other business-related benefits, it is considered inappropriate usage. If the utilization of factual work were more usable than the use of someone’s creative work, then that would not be fair use. There is no specified edge to the amount of quoted work that can be called “fair use.” The courts exercise common sense to determine if it was too much. If the utilization of the material created market or stirred a competition, and if the fair use diminishes demand for the original product, it is not considered as appropriate use (Crews, 1993).

Fairy tales picture a world filled with magic, love and the triumph of the good over the evil. Fairy tales are a window to other worlds where the wildest dreams can come true and the hero always lives happily ever after preferably paired with his loved one. Although some people argue that fairy tales are full of stereotypes, filled with frightening monsters and promote racism and sexism I believe that they are wrong because fairy tales provide valuable moral lessons to children, teach them other countries' cultures promote the imagination and the cognitive development and therefore they should be read to young children.

In today’s America it is becoming harder and harder to know what is truth and what is fiction. The best way to have a complete understanding is to look at the facts and the statistics about whatever you want to know more about. For example when people look at Islam there are numerous misconceptions that people hold with or without knowing it.

The right to ones own thoughts, own ideals and inventions is inherent to anyone. Although if we look at the society around us we find multitudes of examples of mimicked ideas, a side from the right out copying of an others work. Parodies are a prime example of such, the author takes the work of another and picks fun at the piece. (i.e. Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" and H. T. Johnson's “The Black Man’s Burden”) The Copy right was instituted to protect these ideas, they combated the outright copy of such ideas. I couldn't go out today and without the permission of Disney start producing Mickey Mouse shorts for profit.

An example would be the Twilight Saga, one of the most popular fictional romance series out there in the world of both books and movies. Yet the whole movie wasn’t exactly the problem, there was a scene that took place in the second movie titled New Moon that had a very odd scene between Characters Bella and Jacob. Both are by the water having a conversation when Jacob admits his love for Bella, she then responds with telling him she does not feel the same. Rather than him accepting his decisions he fights against them, telling her that he “doesn’t buy it” or “You feel something for me. You just won't admit it” even though she clearly stated that she doesn’t

Fiction is a powerful genre. In McMahon’s “The Function of Fiction: The Heuristic Value of Homer.” She says “(F)iction gives individuals the opportunity to explore a greater range of experiences than are actually available.” This is true on so many levels, fiction can take us to another world or realm or it can alter our reality here on earth. Fiction can pull you out of your day to day and put you somewhere more enjoyable, more exciting, more exotic than that of the four boring white walls of your dark apartment. In films and literature writers take us on adventures to millions of places, they take us to the Wild West for an exhilarating quick draw gunfight, they take us to lush rainforests filled with snakes, apes, and jaguars to find hidden treasures, they can even take us to a faraway castle where we can learn magic and go on ridiculous adventures to fight off an evil dark wizard named Voldemort. These are some situations that we are most likely never going to experience in real life ourselves but we are able to because of fiction. A favorite fiction of roughly 400 million people is the Harry Potter books and movies. This series prompts its readers to live in a world that is much like our own but with a little twist, Magic.

The question whether fan art is legitimate art or not has become one of the most debatable topics today, when people have become so crazy about some artists or characters that there are huge events such as Comic Con which have a great deal with fan art. The artists produce works, which can be in different forms like literature, music or visual art, then they want people to respect and appreciate their work. And, that is what fans do. As a part of being the fans, they express their love for the artists or the art and this is called Fan Art. But the artist who produced the original art wants to have control of the work. Mostly, the monetary benefits of their

What makes a flash fiction different from a traditional short story? “‘ Flash Fiction is defined as a fiction that contains all the classic story elements we’d expect- protagonists, conflicts, obstacles or complications, and their resolution.”’(web) For example, Margaret Atwood’s flash story “Happy Endings” has several plots and several different settings with different obstacles, and complications. Whereas “A traditional short story is shorter than a novel, with a few characters and plot settings.” (web) As to the flash fiction story “Happy Endings”, “Pillow Talk” is more of a traditional short story with several different characters and several different settings. This essay will compare the similarities in “Happy Endings” and “Pillow Talk”,

However, if their Intellectual properties are not being safeguarded, it will result in them to lose their motivation, reputation and income.