You Can't Copyright a Title, But You Shouldn't Steal One Anyway
Many of my gentle readers will recall that I ran a humor/satire website entitled Imaginary Sanitation from 1997-2001 (corresponding to ages 16 through 20). Today I find that the Livejournal user Sytaxia, apparently someone who once made me a vat of vanilla pudding in college, has written an "original novel" entitled Letters to the Department of Imaginary Sanitation.
From Sytaxia's profile:
I sure hope I didn't write any other parts of said manuscript.
From Sytaxia's profile:
Update: "Letters to the Department of Imaginary Sanitation," an original novel, has been sent to literary agents... No news is likely to come for at least two more months, five more months being likely...
I sure hope I didn't write any other parts of said manuscript.
Labels: imaginary sanitation, more motherfuckers stealing my shit, writing
posted by Rob at 1:49 PM
1 Comments:
RB -
I cannot believe you found my LJ full of shitty fanfic and stuff... Nor can I believe you remember my absurd attempt at a penis-shaped cake filled with vanilla pudding. Anyway, I was playing "google your username" with some friends of mine, and I couldn't fucking believe it when I saw this. It's been a long time since you posted this, but either way, I figured I owed you an explanation: it's an epistolary novel, and the character is writing to a now-defunct website owned by someone she doubts remembers her. No portion of IS or anything else I ever saw of yours is reproduced in the manuscript (which the agency made me spend a year re-writing so that it was 50% epistolary and 50% narrative). If you'd like me to change the title, I will. So far, I've rewritten it to the agency's satisfaction and it's been rejected once, so I can definitely contact them Monday and request that the title be changed; I'm honestly not sure if they're submitting simultaneously, etc, but either way, no matter how it was submitted, if it ever actually does get published, and you don't want "IS" to be the website name referenced, I will get it changed. I honestly didn't even remember your last name until I saw this site, but it was you I was thinking of when I named it - it started off as a bunch of letters actually written to you after leaving Tufts, and I found them about 4 years ago in a box of old shit and slapped the name/idea of the recipient being a website onto the half-finished manuscript.
Sorry to have offended you, hope your life is going well, and if you want me to get the name changed (or just want to bitch at me for using it, whatever), my email's Sytaxia at gmail.
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