If you love writing and fanfic enough to come to Writercon, it's quite likely you already know that plagiarism is wrong. But it still negatively impacts our fannish experience, particularly if we assume everyone understands it in the same way. Too often our plagiarism definitions are a lot like identifying pornography – we're sure we'll know it when we see it.

This program will be a discussion of the gray areas that border plagiarism: homage, satire, popular culture references, hive mind, etc. We'll also discuss what actions we can take as writers, mods, award sites, archivists, etc., to move the implicit fandom norms about plagiarism to more explicit ones.