A really interesting article by an author who found his words and ideas incorporated into a Broadway play, and began to see that they weren't necessarily "his" words at all.
As Sarah T said in your journal, the author is definitely not using the terms in their legal senses. I agree with you that he probably would look down on fanfic -- but then he also seems to believe that just because he transcribed a television interview, reproducing the interview takes "his" words, so I wouldn't consider him the final word on this.
I firmly believe that there are no new stories, so I'd say that creativity exists in new words as well as old -- it all depends on the quality of the storytelling, not on how closely we can tie one particular text to its predecessors.
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I firmly believe that there are no new stories, so I'd say that creativity exists in new words as well as old -- it all depends on the quality of the storytelling, not on how closely we can tie one particular text to its predecessors.