However, I have to disagree on your wording: "publishing your work means it no longer belongs solely to you." It does belong to you... it is your intellectual property.
I knew as I was writing it that was a badly-worded statement. I meant that after you put your work out there, and other people can read it, it exists in more than just your mind, so to pretend it never happened is to also pretend that no one else can have read it and imagined it and been part of it. Which is dumb.
Did she state somewhere that she wanted all her previous work deleted?
I couldn't find it in black and white for Anne P (now Dawnatello), who didn't respond to queries, but the actions she took (deleting all evidence of her involvement in HP fandom from her own website, and deleting all archived copies) seem fairly decisive. As for Down From The Tree, I emailed Sugar Quill to ask the mods, since Arabella was part of that site (perhaps founded it?), and the person who responded said that the erasure had been deliberate and that the authors didn't want their pieces to be public any longer.
I guess the question for my original post should've boiled down to: If an author doesn't want anyone to read their work, even though it exists online and I know where, do I have a moral obligation to follow their wishes and not post links? Am I being rude if I post links?
I think I'm going to go with wedjateye's solution: if the author finds my links and is displeased, they can take it up with the person who's hosting the work. After all, it's not like I'm the only one who knows how to use Google.
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Re: long, semi-ambiguous response
Date: 2007-02-03 09:03 pm (UTC)I knew as I was writing it that was a badly-worded statement. I meant that after you put your work out there, and other people can read it, it exists in more than just your mind, so to pretend it never happened is to also pretend that no one else can have read it and imagined it and been part of it. Which is dumb.
Did she state somewhere that she wanted all her previous work deleted?
I couldn't find it in black and white for Anne P (now Dawnatello), who didn't respond to queries, but the actions she took (deleting all evidence of her involvement in HP fandom from her own website, and deleting all archived copies) seem fairly decisive. As for Down From The Tree, I emailed Sugar Quill to ask the mods, since Arabella was part of that site (perhaps founded it?), and the person who responded said that the erasure had been deliberate and that the authors didn't want their pieces to be public any longer.
I guess the question for my original post should've boiled down to: If an author doesn't want anyone to read their work, even though it exists online and I know where, do I have a moral obligation to follow their wishes and not post links? Am I being rude if I post links?
I think I'm going to go with