I hear you, but that was over ten years ago. She wasn't the only author who carelessly used other authors' work without credit at the time, not thinking of it as plagiarism but as homage; she just happened to be the most popular fic author who did so and therefore the focus for all the recriminations that followed. (I made a similar mistake myself, if it comes to that; I used someone else's poem in one of my HP fanfics, and only belately realized it could be mistaken for my own work and that I ought to credit it properly in the footnotes.)
And yes, the situation could have been better and more consistently handled, but she did apologize, get permission to use the material and give proper credit in the end. I'd like to think that people can learn and grow, and that things they did wrong ten years ago and haven't repeated since won't be held against them forever.
I'm not saying this as either a fan or a personal friend. I've never met CC, haven't corresponded with her in nearly ten years, and I haven't read any of her published books because I'm about 90% sure that I would bounce off them. But that's because I find the premise and mythology of her world not to my taste, and not because I bear her any grudge or doubt her abilities as a writer.
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Date: 2013-08-07 03:03 pm (UTC)And yes, the situation could have been better and more consistently handled, but she did apologize, get permission to use the material and give proper credit in the end. I'd like to think that people can learn and grow, and that things they did wrong ten years ago and haven't repeated since won't be held against them forever.
I'm not saying this as either a fan or a personal friend. I've never met CC, haven't corresponded with her in nearly ten years, and I haven't read any of her published books because I'm about 90% sure that I would bounce off them. But that's because I find the premise and mythology of her world not to my taste, and not because I bear her any grudge or doubt her abilities as a writer.