The Fair Use Doctrine

[dumbledore11214]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> 
wrote:
<SNIP>
>> If RDR does win the case, authors and publishers will in all 
likelihood 
> become more draconian, and whether they have a legal leg to do so 
is 
> irrelevant; most fans will run away in terror at the mere sight of 
a 
> Cease and Desist letter.
> 
> My decidedly non-legal mind sees the case being decided in 
Steve/RDR's 
> favor, but then dreads the inevitable resulting chilling effect.


Alla:

As I said before this IS my biggest scare indeed. But if this 
happens, upset as I will be over authors being more draconian, I will 
be watching this with grim satisfaction.

I will be thinking, well, what do you think, writers learned their 
lesson. They saw what happens to those writers who are tolerant and 
encouraging of fandom. If people abuse the privilege of being 
allowed to play in their universe, I would not blame writers one bit 
of at least trying to fight it.

But I will be upset indeed. I happen to LOVE fanfiction.