[META] Other People's Stories

[Saxon Brenton]

On 5/Aug/2010 Andrew asked:
> I'm working on a website for my stories, and I'm in a bit of a quandary 
> over the vrious Just Imagine Saxon Brenton's RACCies series.  I'd like 
> to put in a all the various chapters of the various series - my chapters 
> in the original cascade don't make a lot of sense without context, and 
> Just Imagine IV is deeply continuity-based - but I have no idea how to 
> contact half the authors involved to ask permission.  Would it be all 
> right to archive it without such permission?  Is there an alternative 
> I should seek here?
 
and then on 14/Aug/2010 got out a metaphorical stick and poked:
> So... no ideas? ^^;
 
Well... The answer that Dvandom gave is the most sensible 'broad' answer.
With regards to the Just Imagine cascade, or indeed any cascade on RACC, 
I would say that you have a lot of leeway in this.  Simply put, the nature 
of the story writing process for cascades means that the cascade is 'open'.
A cascade is expected and indeed *encouraged* to have multiple authors 
picking up on what has gone before.  Whether that 'openness' should carry 
through as far as archiving is concerned is admittedly a somewhat different 
matter.  My guess is that most RACC writers would be more comfortable 
having a collected cascade be put up in an archive than other writings 
(especially other serious writings).  So, while I may be wrong about this 
I would say: yeah, sure, go ahead and put up the whole lot for context purposes.
 
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Saxon Brenton
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