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[emmuzka]

So, tell me. What's the story with Karen McFadyyon? She is/was a SGA fic writer who wrote somewhat popular fics. Sometime during 2005-2006 she disappeared and took the fics down with her. Her fics are often asked after in SGA storyfinders, but she contacted the mods and threatened to report the community to lj abuse if any post requesting her fics wouldn't be taken down. (the mods decided to allow requests for private e-mail sends.) Allegedly she has also made known that she would report to LJ anyone requesting her fics.

First, report for what? For just requesting a file transfer action that could hardly be classifeid as illegal file sharing? Does this woman really think that after she has published something in the net, the material would simply disappear for her say so?

And second, why all this? The only reason I could think of is that she has a book deal for original fiction and she would now try to be preventative when it's lready too late. Still, I googled her and I didin't find anything that would suggest that she would be a writer, with the same name or another.

Anyone knows the history in this?

Comments

[sua-lay.livejournal.com]

I think there was a huge flame war and/or wank and she decided the fandom is so fucked up she'd better leave. Took her fic with her. Apparently she now has the opinion that if you wrote something, you own the rights to it even considering who handles copies about it.

Her fics weren't total crap, and that penguin fic is really adorable. :) But otherwise it's more h/c than I really like. She still has a LJ under some other name, but can't really remember it.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's a wank issue and not a "turn pro, what fanfic?" -issue. Gotcha. This is actually a very good example of how impossible it is to pull back something that has been at one point published in the internet.

[mitzi007.livejournal.com]

Mulla on sen ficit. Ei ne huonoja ole, mutta en ole lukenut niitä kaikkia.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Mullakin on sen ficit, joku jakoi niitä rar-fileenä ennen kuin se kiellettiin storyfindersissa. En ole myöskään lukenut kaikkia, ajattelin säästää ne siihen kun netti on poikki...