This writer rolls his eyes.

Text:

| Print

| Share:

4 commentsWednesday, August 27, 2008

AMC Gets Mad at Mad Men Tweets

This writer rolls his eyes.

3 Comments

By used buick rendezvous (WPN reader) - Fri, 04/03/2009 - 17:46

Now AMC has decided to just

Now AMC has decided to just forget about it. Brian Heater at AppScout writes, "Someone must have pointed out the irony of shutting down the free advertising that is Mad Man fanfiction tweets. AMC has just backed off on a plan to shut down fan-created "Mad Men" character Twitter accounts."

By Anonymous (WPN reader) - Fri, 08/29/2008 - 11:48

Fan Fiction / Character Tweets Are Nothing New...

...I've seen plenty of people blog at sites like Blogger as their favorite characters so using Twitter to do the same strikes me as the latest variation on a not so new phenomenon. Have all those now not the newest flavor on the block in technology been shut down by humorless legal departments at entertainment companies as well?

Personally I have better things to do with my time than pretend to be a movie or TV character on a blog or Twitter. But as long as the conglomerates are rushing to the web and want to set up their own virtual real estate for their characters and shows and films you kind of have to expect this sort of silliness.

By Jon Dale (WPN reader) - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 16:34

Who deserves credit?

Twittering as your favorite character in a tv show is inspired, if a bit creepy.

However, AMC should have shut every faux-twitterer down. Those are their characters. The producers, writers, and actors, have rights. They should be respected.

That said, expect any and all projects from now on have twitter rights written in. Having paid writers twitter on behalf of their characters is brilliant. but it should be done by or at least under the supervision of whoever created the character.

Imagine if you created some popular peice of fiction and somebody else "sampled" it to get themselves some traffic. You'd be pissed.