The biggest unaddressed problem with FanLib

Now, I've come into this controversy fairly late, and most of the potential problems with FanLib/CW have already been handily dealt with by other fen here on Henry Jenkin's blog.

I agree that Chris Williams is coming at this from a distinctly non-fennish profit-to-be-made MBA standpoint, that his site has the potential to create ten times as many problems legally as it "solves" user-wise, that he doesn't know the first thing about his target demographic, that online fandom already has at its disposal elsewhere all of the "features" his archive offers, etc, etc.

This leaves Williams with only one novel thing to potentially provide to me, the fanficcer: the opportunity to "get closer to the talent behind [my] favorite fandoms and participate in fun events" and "to be recognized and discovered by a wider audience and by our media partners."

( And therein lies the problem. )

So, nope. Count me out on this one.


これで以上です。