The Complete Works of Maya, Lost to Most of Humanity

[oceaxe]

I just learned that Sarah Rees Brennan, formerly known as Maya and Mistful, has not only taken her fics down and requested that those who have downloaded her master fic file not share it with others, but she has reportedly deleted her own stories from her hard drive

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[mahaliem]

I didn't know that she'd deleted them from her own hard drive. That's like throwing away your love letters from old boyfriends after you get married. You may not care right then, but in twenty or thirty years, you'll wish you had them.

[goseaward]

Did she delete them out of, like, pique, or is it a defense against future legal action...?

[oceaxe]

The attempt to get the stories off the internets as much as possible is likely more about her reputation than fear of lawsuits from JKR. Still, it's completely understandable. The rumored deletion of the stories from her hard drive is what is really making me feel a welter of complex emotions that fall generally under the rubric "sad."

I have no idea what her reasons would be, if that rumor is true.

[goseaward]

I meant legal action on the hard drive--if somebody sued her they could, like, take it as evidence? Maybe? Or something?

[oceaxe]

Oh! Well, IAAL, and I've studied copyright law extensively. No, I don't think it's remotely related to legal considerations. There's no evidentiary question that SRB and about a million squillion others have infringed on JKR's copyright. The files on the hard drive are not necessary to prove that SRB infringed, the proof is ample and easily obtainable. More importantly, if Ms. Rowling did take a wild notion to pick SRB out of the mob to C&D, it would be sort of a moot point now. It's C'd and D'd. Gone. Vanished. There would be no legal reason I can see for her to delete her own copies of the stories.

[blamebrampton]

I 'get' how you feel. And yes, while I agree that it is entirely within her rights to do so, it's also a very sad thing. I think mahaliem is exactly right as to why.

I think she may have crossed a little into wanting the best of both worlds when she sought to remove her fanworks while still trading on her reputation as a fanwriter, but again, it makes perfect sense why she would choose to do so. It's just a sad thing.

[oceaxe]

I appreciate Mahaliem's analogy, but it's not so much that I feel she's going to regret that she deleted those stories. She may, but she may not. I described the situation to my boyfriend thus: Imagine Francis Ford Coppola decided, for a valid but undisclosed reason, that he did not want The Godfather to be sold in stores anymore, nor did he want copies rented or passed around via filesharing. People who owned a copy of the movies could watch them as many times as they wanted, but could not invite people over to watch. Then, it is revealed that he has destroyed the original film stock and he himself will never view the film again. How, I asked, would that make him feel? His face fell. He said, sounding surprised, that he wouldn't like that at all. We explored why that would be... after all, he could still see the movie. The movie didn't change

[sarahtales]

I'm very sorry you feel betrayed or sad. I've done my best to get the fanfiction to everyone - I warned for a year, put up the file for a month, and emailed it out to everyone who asked for six months. I wanted to do the best I possibly could for readers, and show them the affection and respect I have for them

[oceaxe]

Sarah

[sarahtales]

I don't feel betrayed by JK Rowling at all: she was telling the story she wanted to tell, which I think is the best any writer can do for her readers

[oceaxe]

I would be very interested to hear what in DH disappointed you so. For me, I was not disappointed because I had stopped expecting much from Rowling. Like many creators of epic stories, it seemed she had started something larger than she could keep adequate control over. It had become clear to me that she was not going to be able to deliver on the promise of the first five books. My only hope for DH was that she allow Snape the complexity many had perceived in his character. My main emotion on reading the book was relief that her arc for Snape did not include him being an irredeemable villain, because by then I had lost all faith in her ability to do justice to her characters and her world

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