Funny story, I was once on the periphery of a bit of fandom drama (I won’t say which TV fandom cause I don’t want to trigger/dox any crazies) where a particular fandom artist/fanfic writer wrote a popular fanfic with accompanying art. This was successful enough that some other artists within the fandom drew their own sincere art of that fanfic, with appropriate links to the original work.
The author flew off the handle, blocked them all, sent takedown notices, and posted an epic rant about how they were using their intellectual property without permission. When someone (cough) pointed out the hypocrisy of them trying to assert ownership of a setting featuring characters that they themselves didn’t own or have permission for to begin with, they claimed that it was different because everyone already knows the TV show and it belongs to the public, whereas their fanfic of it that they published online was personal to them.
I don’t know if there’s any moral to the story beyond artists are weird and sometimes psycho
Delicious. That’s right up there with that time an indie romance author tried to trademark “cocky” and found herself at the pointy end of millions of romance readers. Premium popcorn material.
Funny story, I was once on the periphery of a bit of fandom drama (I won’t say which TV fandom cause I don’t want to trigger/dox any crazies) where a particular fandom artist/fanfic writer wrote a popular fanfic with accompanying art. This was successful enough that some other artists within the fandom drew their own sincere art of that fanfic, with appropriate links to the original work.
The author flew off the handle, blocked them all, sent takedown notices, and posted an epic rant about how they were using their intellectual property without permission. When someone (cough) pointed out the hypocrisy of them trying to assert ownership of a setting featuring characters that they themselves didn’t own or have permission for to begin with, they claimed that it was different because everyone already knows the TV show and it belongs to the public, whereas their fanfic of it that they published online was personal to them.
I don’t know if there’s any moral to the story beyond artists are weird and sometimes psycho
I like your original meta joke format. It has inspired me to come up with my own original meta joke format.
(I use Voyager btw)
Hm, how do I get that in voyayer?
Select the user by clicking/tapping their username, then the three dots in the upper right corner and select edit tag 🙂
Edit: Nevermimd had to enable it!
LOL, it wasn’t MLP on that occasion, but it could just as easily have been.
It was my first thought as well, but this situation didn’t sound too familiar to me
Delicious. That’s right up there with that time an indie romance author tried to trademark “cocky” and found herself at the pointy end of millions of romance readers. Premium popcorn material.
My money is on Harry Potter fandom.
Fuck copyrights
Sounds like the moral of the story is that anti-copyright advocates are hypocrites
Is this about the straight werewolves author?
I don’t know what that is, but it doesn’t surprise me that it’s happened more than once.