Everyone should be allowed their fantasies.  And most of us realize that they are just that, fantasties, a bit of fun.  I have had some lovely day dreams about Benedict/Sherlock. (shocking, I know!)
 Fan Fiction is just a way to share those dreams with other like minded idividuals if you choose to.
It's not like I would ever walk up to him if I got the chance and say "OMG you're so hot!  I imagine wild stuff about you all the time"!   I wouldn't have even done that when I was 15!

I think we need to put this behind us now.  We can't undo it.  We can only continue to admire and respect our boys and try to set an example.

Ormond Sacker wrote:

Be wrote:

Of course it is published and everybody can do with it...

Not to bash anyone or anything, but this is in fact wrong. Just because it's on the Internet doesn't mean that people can take something and do what they want with it. These items are still protected by copyright. And yes, that includes fan art and fan fiction. What we write, draw, ect. is protected by the same laws as original work, and whether they themselves are infringements of someone else's copyright doesn't matter. (I am sooo not going into copyright on the Holmes stories. That one is too long haired, even for me.)
What this woman did - having a great part of the work performed publicly - it quite likely against copyright law in the UK and the author of the story would have a good case if she decides to take it to court.
 

I am not familiar with U.K. law concerning copyright. The first question to be asked is what kind of law applies. U.K. because is was read in the U.K.? Where was it pubished? AO3? What kind of law applies there? What nationality has the author? It is at first a question of IPR (international private law).
Then the next question is: Unter which legal circumstances has the autor published it?
I always got the impression (without having done research about it too heavily) that ao3 fanfiction are done totally without any implementation of copyright. It's free to download, print out, read and even change.

But I don't think the copyright question is important because the border that was crossed was not a legal one (if at all) but a moral one.

Here is the author's comment:
http://mildredandbobbin.tumblr.com/post/70156524860/if-you-could-one-thing-to-say-to-caitlin-or-benedict
 

Last edited by Be (December 17, 2013 1:16 pm)

I just unfollowed CM on Twitter. Not only because of her behaviour during the Q&A but also because she calls herself a feminist and then tweets things like this:

Caitlin Moran ‏@caitlinmoran14 Dec

Apparently there are people ALREADY QUEUING for Sherlock at the BFI tomorrow #dedication #frostbite

 Rachel Roberts ‏@scouserachel14 Dec

@caitlinmoran #virgins

Caitlin Moran ‏@caitlinmoran14 Dec

@scouserachel SO HARSH SO TRUE

Let me see - she starts with a neutral observation about people queueing for the film one day early (which may be mad but so what). Then someone else calls those women/girls virgins and CM agrees with her. This is a woman who calls herself a feminist and writes about feminism in the 21st century. So are all women/girls wanting to watch Sherlock/the team so badly frustrated virgins? Women or girls who do not get "real" men and therefore have to pine for movie stars? Is this her meaning?
As for her tweets - if feminism means squeezing in as many vulgar words as possible then I suppose I am not a feminist. 
A shame, actually, because she wrote some nice articles about Benedict but this is frankly disappointing. 
Rant over. Now let's get back to what really counts. 

Last edited by SusiGo (December 17, 2013 3:59 pm)

Trying to figure out how to tell my husband I'm a virgin.  He's going to be very distrubed.

As others have indicated, hoping we can all move on from this.
I'm still following Caitlin on Twitter, but she always used to irritate me on occasions.

Last edited by besleybean (December 17, 2013 4:39 pm)

I'm still not convinced Caitlin thought this through.
I think she's a tad impulsive.

Well, she obviously didn't (think it through), because she would understand that it was a kind of very spectacular suicide for her, as far as her relation to Sherlock production team is concerned.However, I am a bit surprised that all the outrage seems to be about the fandom and fanfiction writers. What about the humiliation of Benedict and Martin, forced to read pornographic text (about the characters they play and are identified with) aloud in public? If I understood the reports, CM assured them before reading that it was "innocent". 

Marva wrote:

miriel68 wrote:

Well, she obviously didn't (think it through), because she would understand that it was a kind of very spectacular suicide for her, as far as her relation to Sherlock production team is concerned.However, I am a bit surprised that all the outrage seems to be about the fandom and fanfiction writers. What about the humiliation of Benedict and Martin, forced to read pornographic text (about the characters they play and are identified with) aloud in public? If I understood the reports, CM assured them before reading that it was "innocent". 

that was actually my main concenr. It's like slapping them in the face. Just very rude.

I just hope they know that the whole fandom is horrified and does not agree with what happend.
I hope Mark, Sue, Lou and Amanda who are on Twitter received a lot of messages considering this and can pass the messages to Ben and Martin.

miriel68 wrote:

Well, she obviously didn't (think it through), because she would understand that it was a kind of very spectacular suicide for her, as far as her relation to Sherlock production team is concerned.However, I am a bit surprised that all the outrage seems to be about the fandom and fanfiction writers. What about the humiliation of Benedict and Martin, forced to read pornographic text (about the characters they play and are identified with) aloud in public? If I understood the reports, CM assured them before reading that it was "innocent". 

 
It's not the text that worries me - the excerpt they read wasn't that pornographic - but the fact that the actors were used as a tool to humiliate other people. They had to play along, they had no chance to think through what they were doing. The whole situation was just awful. Ah, let's forget about it and go back to the nicer things.

^^