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April 27th, 2005 -- FanFiction.Net would like to address a growing problem. For whatever reason, some writers feel it's okay to copy-n-paste musical lyrics they have not written into their fiction. If you did not write it, do not post it. This has always been our policy. Please remove these entries immediately to avoid account closure.

Um...wow. Okay.

"If you did not write it, do not post it."

By that rule taken not much farther, fanfiction itself is unadmissable.

Also, cutting out songfics? WTF? I mean... that's a fanfic trend I've long since grown out of, but you can't take that away. That's an integral part of the fanfiction community.

So if not songs... what's next? What about quotes of famous authors/movies/speeches at the beginning of the chapter?

What about fanfiction where you transcribe your own version of a given scene? It's not your dialouge, so does that count?

What if you use a song lyric for a chapter title?

::shakes head::

This seems unreal. The ff.net maintainers had to have known about songfic for ages. But worse than that, this really would hurt fics like

sidewalksg's Leadbelly, and other fics that quote lyrics often in the beginning or end of stories, but aren't actually songfics.

I'd say this was a joke, except... well, it does seem to be right there on the ff.net front page.