There Once Was This Guy With An OrangeF U C K ! ! !@unsolids-your-snake, You Try

There once was this guy with an orange F U C K ! ! ! @unsolids-your-snake, you try

There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

mhmm *nods sagely*

"haha what a buffoon" I say while needing to go to sleep right now

nothing fills you with greater false confidence than managing to wake up early once

So... could an author exploit a loophole where instead of writing cannon, which they don't get to own, they write fanfiction, so they do get to own it?

You don’t own fanfics. They’re inherently public domain because they aren’t your IP. Agree or disagree with AI, there are no grounds for “protection” from AI because it isn’t your IP to begin with. That’s what you chose when you chose this medium

Oh dear.

Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.

Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number--deleted the fandom specific elements--, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)

BUT

Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don't steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people's fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it's too late--before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.

Disrepectfully,

Orlissa

(i can't believe I have to say this)

@unsolids-your-snake is a furry confirmed! *Runs away into bushes* *Realizes that was a bad idea cause now I'm all scrapped up*

I get that 100%

In the club