The hostility to AO3 really puzzles me, and some of it has been couched in anti-intellectual ways that (naturally) get my back up. For some of the people around in fandom ten-fifteen years ago, though, there's apparently some serious baggage around the academic/non-academic fen conflict, so that explains their position at least. All news to me but I can see how it happened.
Oh, the argument against the use of "orphaned" to describe some works keeps nagging at me. Someone's probably told the OP this already, and you probably know it yourself, but that word wasn't chosen to make anyone feel bad. It's how professional archivists and restorers refer to works which are technically under copyright, but in which it's impossible to contact the copyright holder. I assume the analogy is to fanworks which someone wants to preserve (by archiving, ferinstance, in a stable archive like AO3), but the writers of which are unreachable, have left fandom, etc.
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I guess this is officially off-topic, sorry
Date: 2010-01-05 12:50 am (UTC)Oh, the argument against the use of "orphaned" to describe some works keeps nagging at me. Someone's probably told the OP this already, and you probably know it yourself, but that word wasn't chosen to make anyone feel bad. It's how professional archivists and restorers refer to works which are technically under copyright, but in which it's impossible to contact the copyright holder. I assume the analogy is to fanworks which someone wants to preserve (by archiving, ferinstance, in a stable archive like AO3), but the writers of which are unreachable, have left fandom, etc.
Whew, I feel better now that I've typed that.