Reading the Vampire Slayer - book review

[april]

yay, my copy of "Reading the Vampire Slayer" just arrived today (FINALLY!), and i spent waaaaay too long reading it at work!

it has some fantastic stuff about w/t and tara in general - cultural theorists really like how "subversive" they are. hee!

i'll try to type up some more excerpts when i have a moment, maybe this weekend. i just love that there's serious academic writing out there about buffy!

[tyche]

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i just love that there's serious academic writing out there about buffy!

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Me too. Apparently there's a Journal of Buffy Studies, which is edited by a Harvard academic. I work for a publisher of academic journals, and sadly we don't publish anything that interesting - it's all about engineering. Sometimes I think that if I see one more paper about welding, I'll throw something at someone...

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I don't watch pornography. I just write it. - Joss
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Anya: (noddin') Like the bleedin' tile. - 'The Yoko Factor' in Cockneyquote:

[Willowlicious]

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Originally posted by fell:

The issue of "academic plagiarism" as regards copying tests, theses, term papers, etc., is completely different from that of legal copyright violations. Except in the case of published dissertations or reports of original research, it's a matter of simple cheating, not copyright violation.

Fics (as opposed to original fiction) cannot be copyrighted or sold, generally speaking. I'm unaware of any "rights" outside of traditional copyright that protects your fic from being stolen, altered, copied or edited without your permission, unfortunatey.

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Just to clarify, I know there is a major difference between "academic plagiarism" and copyright violation. I wasn't trying to suggest there was a legal problem, just an ethical one. A few years ago I assisted my then-boss while she wrote a book that quoted extensively from Internet sources, some major, some tiny. Not only did we properly attribute each quote, we notified each person quoted. We didn't have to, we just did. Shrug. Copyright legalities aside, Internet plagiarism IS a big issue and you would think people would start being more careful about attributing sources. I bet Doris Kearns Goodwin wishes she would have.quote: