I recently read a post by the Twilight series author, Stephanie Meyer, on her blog. Earlier this year, a partial draft of Midnight Sun was illegally posted on the Internet and has since been distributed without her permission and permission of her publisher. In an effort to educate her fans on copyright, she brought up the copy's online availability on her website. But to deter her fans from going out to look for Midnight Sun online, she decided to make it available on her own website. She views Midnight Sun's initial online distribution as a detrimental violation of her rights as an author and as a human being; she has consequently decided to stop working on that novel all together. "In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely."
Although I have never read a book of the Twilight series, I feel it is still a shame that a whole novel just went to waste. Ms. Meyer should complete the novel and publish it for her fans. She obviously has a problem with online distribution of her work without consent (understandably so), but I think her decision to give into what is becoming a cultural norm by posting it herself on her website, crying like a baby about it and refusing to complete the work is a bit irrational. Her response is much like a twelve year old's who doesn't get what she wants.
I'm assuming this author had her first drafts copyrighted, which would mean the online distribution of it without her consent was illegal. I was just wondering if there is a difference in value between a copyrighted draft and a complete, published, copyrighted work?
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