hunters_forest | Admin: disclaimers and the official C.S. Friedman livejournal (Reply)

First post of an administratory nature, and hopefully the last for a long time.

hunters_forest is being watched by the official news announcement LJ of C.S. Friedman's website,

csfriedman. Essentially this means that we're listed in their user info and that all un-friendslocked posts to this community can be read by them. The journal supposedly is only for news announcements, but of course it is possible that the friends page is being read.

So. This shouldn't be a problem for this comm. The discussions certainly are safe - talking about Tarrant's hair colour can hardly be classed as a copyright infringement, I'd say.

To also keep the fanfics on a safe level, I've updated the community info to include disclaimers as C.S. Friedman requested in her official statement on fanfiction. There is also a sample disclaimer for fan art and fan fiction available now. If you post fics or art on the list, please include a disclaimer from now on. If you link to the fic on another page, I leave it up to you whether you put a disclaimer there or not, but any full text on the list should have a disclaimer on top. I've checked the old posts already for this. It's common practice in fandom anyway, so I doubt this comes as a surprise for anyone.

I have asked the creator of

csfriedman to unlist us from the journal. We'll see how that goes, since there isn't much I can do beyond asking. If the idea of Ms. Friedman possibly reading your posts makes you uneasy, the easiest way to circumvent this is to friends-lock anything you post to the community. Community members will still be able to read it, but journals which only watch the comm - such as the official journal - will not.

So far I do not think we need to worry about this. Ms. Friedman has taken a tolerant position concerning fan works until now, and I hope that this will not change. Most likely we're simply being paranoid, but well - better safe than sorry, where fan fiction is concerned.

If you have any other suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them. This is still a small community, and any input would be more than welcome.