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queen-susans-revenge · 6 months ago

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I think that while some aspects of the law are unclear/unsettled right now, even commercial transformative works should be—and probably will turn out to be—legal.

The Wind Done Gone set the correct precedent here.

I think it's safe to say that any professional author who is against fanfiction is full of shit.

I was going to write a big thing about why after that but honestly all of it has already been written so yeah.

Professional authors who take time out of their day to condemn fanfiction or who say that fanfiction is wrong are full of shit.

And before you say what I know you're gonna say:

Fanfiction by its DEFINITION is non profit. So shut up.

#this is also why generative AI trained on copyrighted works does not bother me #and I expect it to be ruled legal #which is ultimately in everyone's benefit because it makes the intellectual commons larger #Disney does NOT need more legal power to tie up anything remotely related to their IPs #(that they plundered the commons for in the first place)#direct plagiarism should remain illegal but transformative works should be fine #also when this is settled it'll end the risk of authors being sued by crazed/greedy fans convinced that the creator 'stole' their fic ideas #like one. no they didn't. and two. ideas are not copyrightable in the first place #IP holders should be able to sue for plagiarism or for impersonation and that's it #by impersonation I mean: if I start publishing a line of Star Wars fic designed to look like officially-licensed material I should get sued #because that's deliberately deceptive to the consumer #but if I put something out with NOT OFFICIALLY LICENSED / NOT A DISNEY PRODUCT stickers all over it? Yeah I think that should be fine #and if I had the time/money to weather the inevitable lawsuit #I'd do it as a public service just to establish the principle #ai generated books are shit quality and I think they probably ought to be labelled (again for consumer protection reasons). but not illegal #it's also important that ai generated material can't be copyrighted. it all goes straight in the public domain. yay.#maybe some day it'll be less shitty. but I also think there will always be demand for artisanal humancrafted works. like pottery I guess

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