Pounce

I think it's an ugly thing to take another's idea and write a fic without having agreed before with the first person to do so. It's breaking the trust they put in you. But sometimes, the ideas of someone else inspire you to do beautiful things and to what extent must you refrain from writing down the story that has created itself in your head afer hearing that person's plotbunny? It's a delicate matter, because you're hurting someone's feelings, but only because of that, not for some copyright thing. I don't think the first person has the right to ask for the story to be taken down and forgotten, even if the spark that gave it life was his/hers. I would understand far better that they wrote their own version and explained why it's so similar to the other one. Without rantings or melodramatism, just so that people know it's not plagiarism. Although that could trigger a wank, and nobody wants that. I don't know.

What I wanted to say, is that it's morally wrong to take someone else's idea when they have told you in confidence and write a fic out of it, but only because it's a betrayal, not because I think it's wrong to take another's idea to build your own story. I don't know if I'm explaining myself correctly.