An ethical question

[nocturnus33]

There is an author whose fics I like: Josan

She haven't been around in 9 years. Some of her fics are at an Angelfire web page she hasn´t updated since 2006. Most of her work are at both her live journals blogs josanpq

  or tales_of_josan , which were last updated during  2008. This worried me, since Livejournal announced last month that bloggers who didn't accept the new ToS will see their blogs deleted in six more months. I'd try to contact Josan through her mail but the adress was not found. (See Termination of Inactive Accounts by Administration )**

I'd been thinking about moving her fics to A03 acknowledging her authorship and the reasons why I'm posting them in another site, but I'm of two minds about it. I wasn't Josan's friend and I have no idea about her thoughts on a topic like this. I just know she stop updating but she never withdrew her fics from where she post it.

I'd seem so beautifull fics lost through the years because the site in which they were posted were shut down. It will sadden me to lost this ones too. Should I save her fics at A03?

Please share your thoughts on this.

 

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The Administration reserves the right to delete the Account and the Blog if access to the Blog is not carried out by the User for more than 6 months in a row or was limited during the same period in connection with the violation of the Agreement.

 

Comments

[torino10154]

Though, as both an author and a mod, I definitely hesitate to encourage reposting, I do agree with delphipsmith's comment.

But I also agree with Shiv about getting in touch with friends. I went and looked at Josan's friends and I'd suggest you try contacting Djin7. She's the person who did Snarry Games and therefore has "control" of the fic Josan did for that. She might have been in contact with her at some point or have another suggestion for you.

When an author asked me to remove their fic from an archive I run, she allowed us to give people a week to save it for themselves. I know I'm going to be looking at defunct journals to see what I can save before it's too late.

[nocturnus33]

Some of Josan's fics are at A03 saved by ISF_Archivist who were the former Ink Stained Fingers administrators. They comment that they couldn't reach her.

I don't want to create panic. It's not that LJ is going to start deleting journals everywhere. Livejournal isn't saying that they are going to delete inactive accounts, but that they reserve the right to do it so it might not happen at all. The fact that most of Josan's fics are slash make it riskier, as Livejournal has a policy against it.

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

Please let me know where the stuff you save is finally placed.
(I'm MS. Johnny-Come-Lately to HP fan fics and so far I've loved everything I've read.)
Thanks!
:^)

[nocturnus33]

These are Josan fics at her Lj

Here is the place I'm saving it at A03. Look at the bookmarks too, as someone else has saved a few of her fics too.

Yesterday, I was able to contact Josan former beta reader and she agrees to send her a message from my part. I will not save any more of her fics until I get explicit consent from her to do so. There is also the posibility she don't like me doing so, in which case, I'll delete what I have already post at A03.

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

I better get to reading then. For all I know, she may want you to delete them all.
:^|

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

I'm glad she's still alive. Hopefully she's still writing!
:^)