Fan-Fic III - The Final Word

Moving on from the last post—

I've been having an interesting (and amicable) discussion with a couple of fanfic writers, and while I can't say that our frames of reference overlap to any marked extent, we do at least adjoin on one point.

Universal Ownership of Art

There is a philosophical ideal that states that art, once created, belongs to the world at large—that it can't be contained or constrained—and both as a philosophical premise and as a matter of simple observation, I think this is true....