Dana wrote:
Shane said:
Don't you think they'd _love_ to know about slash art?
Of course they do--there've been articles about slash in several
newspapers
and magazines, quite apart from at least three books that I know about.
We're agreed then.
Fiinally, supposing an actor found out about slash art and was angry
enough
to complain to his/her agent? That agent might very well refuse to let the actor have anything to do with fans at all. Agents can't "refuse to let actors" do anything. A sensible actor who was upset about slash art would complain to the artist, and then negotiate future con
appearances
based on a guarantee that slash art would not be sold there, or would be subject to display restrictions.
Agents don't work like that. For one thing, to get a good agent is rare and you want to hang on to them-- which gives an agent a good deal of power over their actors. They can also go over actors' heads-- I know of at least one case of a sf actor whose agent carefully binned any request from anything she saw as fan-related. And finally, there is at least one case of a B7 actor who _has_ complained about slash fiction-- but this hasn't stopped artists and publishers using his image in this way, even at cons which he appears at.
As I said, they don't need to. Journalists need to sell papers, and so
regardless of whether or not the site does show anything factual, they'll write it up. If a journalist did find a fan site with slash art, chances
are
the headline would read NUDE PICTURES OF [ACTOR X] SHOCKER, and the fact that these were faked up or sketched will be buried somewhere in the fine print. This _did_ actually happen at least once, with Doctor Who and the
Sun
newspaper. Even a journalist can tell the difference between a fan's sketch and a photograph that is presented as a factual depiction of an actor.
That wasn't what I said. I said that it doesn't _matter_ to the journalist whether the picture is a sketch or a photo.
Shane
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