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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, this guy waded through all the court docs and sums it up well for me:

So here I am, a person on the internet, delivering my verdict. From where I sit, identifying the Bad Art Friend is easy. In the early years, it is Sonya. She abused Dawn’s trust to mock and gaslight her, while lying to their mutual friends to make her look even worse.

In the later years, it is Dawn. Someone you considered a friend turned your intimate reflections into a derogatory short story and humiliated you in front of your social circle. That sucks, but turning your hurt feelings into a career vendetta and a years-long legal battle is sucky behavior too.

https://rottenindenmark.org/2021/10/10/identifying-the-bad-art-friend-is-easy/[/quote]

I like Michael Hobbes but I think he’s wrong about this (heehee). While I agree Dawn was overly aggressive in contacting Sonya’s employees and publishers, I think Sonya is equally responsible for dragging out the legal case and prolonging the problem.

Sonya could just remove the letter from the story, promise not to use it again, and it all ends. This wouldn’t satisfy Dawn, who wants the story gone altogether. But it would destroy any legal claim. I think if Sonya had done this years ago, and offered to drop her lawsuit (remember Sonya sued first and Dawn simply counter sued as a standard part of her defense), Dawn would have been pressured into dropping her suit as well.

When you say Dawn is the bad actor at this point, you are suggesting that she should have accepted the theft of her letter AND accepted the humiliation of the story itself and “let it go.” I don’t think that’s a reasonable expectation, and I believe Dawn’s anger and frustration about the story and letter theft are not only understandable but inevitable. I don’t think there are many, if any, people who would respond that differently to bring in that situation. Dawn’s behavior is a pretty typical reaction to this kind of personal attack. It’s how people respond when their existence feels threatened.

In that light, this whole situation is within Sonya’s control, and is of her making. Her refusal to remove the letter from her story, something that would have allowed her to publish the story free of legal questions, is inexplicable to me. The letter is not essential to the story and (key point here) Sonya didn’t write it. Dawn did! So why persist in this? I don’t get it.[/quote]

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