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scans_daily
Mar. 2nd, 2009 04:06 pmAs some of you probably know, scans_daily was shut down for violation of LJ's rules about IP and copyright violation. The question floating around the internets right now - especially on all the comics industry blogs I read - is not whether LJ was within their rights to shut it down (obviously they were) but whether (the law aside for now) this sort of community is a boon or a plague for the comics industry and for comics creators.
And... ok, maybe it's naive of me to be so surprised about this, but... The bloggers who are coming out in support of scans_daily and the service that communities like it provide by finding new readers for comics? ALL OF THEM ARE WOMEN. Seriously. I think I've read maybe one male blogger saying something *equivocal* about scans_daily, and the rest are all making statements to the effect of "who knows if there was a positive effect but the bottom line is they were posting material with disregard to the wishes of the owners of the IP, and that is Bad."
Who's right in this debate isn't even interesting to me anymore. I just can't get over the gender divide. It would have made more sense if this had happened back when scans_daily was more explicitly a female/slash-centric group... but in recent years it's been pretty neutral in terms of who's served by it. Which is why I'm so surprised, because my experience prior to this has been that IP issues and questions of fair use tend not to polarize people by gender. Except here we are.
Thoughts?
And... ok, maybe it's naive of me to be so surprised about this, but... The bloggers who are coming out in support of scans_daily and the service that communities like it provide by finding new readers for comics? ALL OF THEM ARE WOMEN. Seriously. I think I've read maybe one male blogger saying something *equivocal* about scans_daily, and the rest are all making statements to the effect of "who knows if there was a positive effect but the bottom line is they were posting material with disregard to the wishes of the owners of the IP, and that is Bad."
Who's right in this debate isn't even interesting to me anymore. I just can't get over the gender divide. It would have made more sense if this had happened back when scans_daily was more explicitly a female/slash-centric group... but in recent years it's been pretty neutral in terms of who's served by it. Which is why I'm so surprised, because my experience prior to this has been that IP issues and questions of fair use tend not to polarize people by gender. Except here we are.
Thoughts?
