The One with the Fountainhead [possible satire]

• Version control repository for the screenplay’s source on GitHub. It is useful for cloning, sending pull requests, and filing bugs/issues in the bug tracker
• Part 1 - Source in text format (requires XML-Grammar-Fiction’s Screenplay-Text processing, in order to render)
• Part 2 - Source in text format (requires XML-Grammar-Fiction’s Screenplay-Text processing, in order to render)

This work was also enjoyed by people who were only familiar with either The Fountainhead or the Friends T.V. show.

• Omer Zak - Omer gave a positive review of an early draft of the screenplays, and gave some useful commentary. Note that he had previously read The Fountainhead, and has not watched Friends (in part due to being deaf) and admitted he may have missed some of the jokes from that aspect of my crossover.

• Gwen (Chen) Shapira - stumbled across the screenplay after visiting my home site, in its contemporary version then, and after mentioning it to her in a real-life conversation, she noted that it was “one of the most horrid things I have read lately”, to which I replied, “Yes, well, I wrote it.”.

  As it turns out, she had not read either The Fountainhead or watched Friends at the time. After the conversation, she went on to read all of Ayn Rand’s books, a feat which I have not accomplished yet.

Well, since this work is a parody of The Fountainhead (written by Ayn Rand and now still kept by the Ayn Rand estate), and contains characters from there, I am theoretically protected by the Copyright’s “right of parody” as part of the ”Fair Use” provision. There are other parodies of Ayn Rand works online and possibly offline, and as far as I know, no one was sued yet.

However, I have used characters and concepts from the T.V. show Friends, and while some parts of my work may parody the show in some respect, I consider it as an ordinary fan-fiction work of Friends, rather than as a parody of it. As a result, I consider it a derivative work of Friends, which, like it or not and according to the contemporary Copyright Law, may mean it is encumbered by the claims of its copyright holders. Again, I’ve seen other fan fiction of Friends around the Net.

All the text in “The One with the Fountainhead” is original, and as far as I’m concerned can be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence Unported (CC-by-sa), either version 3.0, or at your option any later version, but like I said, the situation is more complicated than that.

I’m putting it here on this site in hope that it will amuse or inspire people, and also because it may encourage people to read The Fountainhead, or watch some episodes of Friends — both of which I can highly recommend. I’m not charging people any money to download, build, or view the works. Please don’t sue me.

• The Human Hacking Field Guide - a story about teenage open source/open content developers in 2005 Los Angeles.

• Star Trek: “We, the Living Dead” - a Star Trek episode inspired by Objectivism.

• “Objectivism and Open Source” - why open source is compatible with Objectivism.

• Shlomi Fish’s Advice for the Young

• “The Eternal Jew” - another Objectivism-inspired essay.