Do you believe there is a moral imperative to ask for permission to use someone else's words? No. In fact, I used a line from a favorite movie of mine, "The Apartment," in this story (with cite), and I did not ask Billy Wilder for permission to do so.
I should have chosen my words more carefully. It's just that I'm open to the possibility that someone could make a case for not using someone else's words (or at the least, that there is a hypothetical tipping point where it moves from fair use to slapping your name onto someone else's story), but I don't see how a fanfic writer can make the case that one must have permission to borrow ideas.
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Date: 2006-08-28 03:27 pm (UTC)No. In fact, I used a line from a favorite movie of mine, "The Apartment," in this story (with cite), and I did not ask Billy Wilder for permission to do so.
I should have chosen my words more carefully. It's just that I'm open to the possibility that someone could make a case for not using someone else's words (or at the least, that there is a hypothetical tipping point where it moves from fair use to slapping your name onto someone else's story), but I don't see how a fanfic writer can make the case that one must have permission to borrow ideas.