The most interesting idea on the identity of a writer for me comes from Foucault. His ideas about the author and lack of an author intrigue me. We talked about it a bit in class, but there are some things in the world that do not need authors. There are some works or items that are created that need no sense of "ownership". We simply accept them. And then some works, mostly the books we read, that we would not be interested in as much if they had no author.

I think that for multimedia writers, it is more important that they disseminate their ideas than it is for them to proclaim their ownership of the ideas. For everyone who writes on the Internet, the words that they use don't belong to them. Many sites have rules that state that anything that is written on said site, no longer solely belongs to the original author. The ideas flow freely over the Internet, and anyone has access to them.

I'm not sure where fan fiction falls under this discourse. Even though fan fiction uses other ideas freely, the authors of these fan fictions protect their creations. Plagiarizing other fan fiction stories is frowned upon. So, while these people do not actually have direct ownership of their stories, they claim ownership of their ideas that have inserted into the stories. So, I believe that many OC fan fiction writers take the ideas of others that they enjoy and insert their own ideas or "fantasies" into another story because they like it, and wish to share it, not because they'd like to be recognized as a great writer.

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