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Date: 2006-03-27 03:41 pm (UTC)2) There's some legal bluster RE copyright infringement, which is in fact the least of any ficcer's worries. Trademark, now, that's a suit of a different lawyer.
3) I never made any claim that my critiquing her opinions would hurt her sales. In fact, I'd be terribly upset to think it would. I'm sure she HAS sold more books due to the rant (despite huffily offended ficcers deciding they will NEVER buy That Woman's Books Again) and its subsequent publicity.
4) Sure, there's plenty of bad fanfic. There's plenty of bad NormalFic, too. And bad author wannabees. Editors have horror stories of serious author-wannabees (and sometimes actual published authors) which match ANYTHING a raging fangirl can manage. The reason we don't think of "real fiction" as being as on-average bad as fanfiction is simple: "real fiction" is filtered, usually. If you could filter out the 9/10ths of the worst fanfiction, you'd probably find the remainder was about on a level with other areas of writing. In other words, still 9/10ths drek.