Yeah -- FanLib made me very aware that, despite the bizarreness of it all, some people might actually go and make a profit off fanfic. I mean, yes, even with crediting and all that, that the 'based on' would be obscured under giddy legalese in the small print of the credits with no real credit given to the author; I think I didn't imagine that for-profit works would be so awful as to do whatever they could to not be respectful of the person they'd be 'basing off of.' WITNESS MY BUBBLE OF BLISSFUL IDEALISM.
That being said, some part of me is very inclined to go ahead and allow the Commercial-OK tag because it's... it feels weird for me to say about my own stuff (NOTE: just my stuff, everyone else is totally cool by me with whatever they choose), 'this fanwork which is based off of a commericial subject can no longer be profited from!!1' because 1. I'm sure they'd do it anyway, only without the credit, 2. it's like the ideas can't be recycled back into the original media they sprang from, great circle of inspirational life and all that.
It's just the sheer disdain of how FanLib handled matters that is making me want to put on the No-Commercial note. Otherwise, I'd gleefully throw out my arms and shout, 'Be free! Be free, little chickadees!'
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That being said, some part of me is very inclined to go ahead and allow the Commercial-OK tag because it's... it feels weird for me to say about my own stuff (NOTE: just my stuff, everyone else is totally cool by me with whatever they choose), 'this fanwork which is based off of a commericial subject can no longer be profited from!!1' because 1. I'm sure they'd do it anyway, only without the credit, 2. it's like the ideas can't be recycled back into the original media they sprang from, great circle of inspirational life and all that.
It's just the sheer disdain of how FanLib handled matters that is making me want to put on the No-Commercial note. Otherwise, I'd gleefully throw out my arms and shout, 'Be free! Be free, little chickadees!'