I'm just baffled that people care so much. It's fanon, it's not like they're getting paid for it anyway. The way I see it, the only person who loses out is the author of the fanfic. The readers either don't know, or they recognize the quote and get a giggle out of it. The author of the original piece either doesn't suffer at all, or gets extra readers because of people realizing hte plagerism. The author of the fanfic at best learns to write by example, at worst never learns anything because they're plagerizing. Really, they're just harming themselves.
Of course all of this only counts because it's fanfiction. If we were talking original fiction I'd be much more upset about it.
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Date: 2006-08-18 09:09 am (UTC)Of course all of this only counts because it's fanfiction. If we were talking original fiction I'd be much more upset about it.