quote:Blayne, how would you feel if we decided to create a book where each member writes a story specifically about you?
It doesn't matter whether he'd be OK with it -- many people here wouldn't be.
I'ld be thrilled, "hey look, people are writing a book about me!"
I really doubt you'd be thrilled, especially if you had no control over its contents. I imagine you'd feel the same way as you do when your threads here don't go the way you want them to.
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I want to see Blayne write a book in which a curmudgeonly jerk named Occasional finds a soulmate on an Internet forum and learns to love. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: But if you do, you'll be deliberately offending people.
This would be the real crux of the matter. Though if prior evidence tells us anything, it's that Blayne doesn't much care about that.
That is so not true. If prior evidence tells us anything, it's that the deliberate offense adds spice to it for him.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I want to see Blayne write a book in which a curmudgeonly jerk named Occasional finds a soulmate on an Internet forum and learns to love.
I smell a CRT-lit musical montage!
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quote:Originally posted by MrSquicky: I will freely waive any objections to being in this book if Blayne agrees to name his character Mary Sue (or knowing him, probably something more like Mray Sue)
quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: blayne's serializing us so that the people he dislikes can get shot or stabbed or something, I bet.
I will read it, however, as I am a huge fan of comedy.
That's pretty much why I'd be perfectly okay with Blayne using me as a character. I have zero fear of this monstrosity actually getting published, so I'm pretty sure it'd just be us reading it, and I think Blayne's portrayal of me would be extremely amusing.
Hatrack fanfic is woefully underrepresented.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I want to see Blayne write a book in which a curmudgeonly jerk named Occasional finds a soulmate on an Internet forum and learns to love.
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Having contributed to sites like Wikipedia, I'm used to the notion that anything I put on the Internet is not mine. It's the world's. I may have made it, but usually nobody cares, and that's true of the pseudonym and persona surrounding it as well as the work. Therefore, I have no qualms about this, it might be a fun read. I gave the world permission whatever liberty required to use my image and work for their own ends when I signed up for the Internet, and so did everyone else.
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quote:I gave the world permission whatever liberty required to use my image and work for their own ends when I signed up for the Internet, and so did everyone else.
quote:I gave the world permission whatever liberty required to use my image and work for their own ends when I signed up for the Internet, and so did everyone else.
You might have. I didn't. The Internet needs to get over this idea that neither law nor civility apply to it. The laws regarding use of likeness, copyright, trademark, and right of publicity do not stop applying because someone invents a new method of publication.
The general rules about these things are well established. Courts have been pretty darned good at interpreting them in light of new technology. The cultural memes of the Internet do not trump the law.
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If he referred to us merely by our forum names could anything be done? I'd be surprised if forum handles were implicitly copyrights. If that's all that he would use then I would have no problem with it.
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Because it could be construed as legal advice in which I have a conflict of interest. I have no desire to create an attorney-client relationship with you.
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quote:Originally posted by C3PO the Dragon Slayer: I gave the world permission whatever liberty required to use my image and work for their own ends when I signed up for the Internet, and so did everyone else.
I must've missed that disclaimer in the materials from my ISP.
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quote:Originally posted by Dagonee: Because it could be construed as legal advice in which I have a conflict of interest. I have no desire to create an attorney-client relationship with you.
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It means I was really restraining myself from saying something but couldn't resist quoting the post because I found my thought so funny.
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"hmm looking over Dagonne's CV, it appears you worked for a 'Blayne Bradley' in the past, I think we cannot hire you due to that having any proximity to him may present us with severe liabilities. I am sorry"
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quote:Also i do not understand how is it a conflict of interest
Because my interests in protecting any rights in publicity, likeness, and copyright are in opposition to your interests in writing the novel.
"[A] lawyer shall not represent a client if the representation involves a concurrent conflict of interest. A concurrent conflict of interest exists if ... there is a significant risk that the representation of one or more clients will be materially limited by ... a personal interest of the lawyer."
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quote:Originally posted by C3PO the Dragon Slayer: I'm used to the notion that anything I put on the Internet is not mine. It's the world's.
Even though I do have legal rights, I prefer to think that way about anything I post on the net. It makes for less anger and dissapointment.
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