While I can sympathize with the "oh, crap" feeling that one might experience on seeing one's work riffed on, parodied, pastiched, or otherwise homaged, there's also the fact that a writer can't expect, once she's posted something, to control how her readers choose to respond to it.
And, too, if one does choose to riff, parody, pastiche, or homage, then that person in turn can't control how her own efforts are received. I tend to think that it all will come out in the wash, one way or another, and that the free and vigorous exchange of opinions, whether in the form of fiction or otherwise, are a Good Thing.
On a completely different topic, I can't help but wonder if, today, Marlowe might not have had a half-ass chance to sue Raleigh for copyright infringement. Well, except that Marlowe probably wasn't interested in owning the nymph anyway...:)
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Date: 11/18/06 07:27 pm (UTC)And, too, if one does choose to riff, parody, pastiche, or homage, then that person in turn can't control how her own efforts are received. I tend to think that it all will come out in the wash, one way or another, and that the free and vigorous exchange of opinions, whether in the form of fiction or otherwise, are a Good Thing.
On a completely different topic, I can't help but wonder if, today, Marlowe might not have had a half-ass chance to sue Raleigh for copyright infringement. Well, except that Marlowe probably wasn't interested in owning the nymph anyway...:)