My name is Danielle. Bi ace. She/her. Cisgender. Hella white. I post a lot about books and movies and funny stuff and occasionally serious things. I will always try to tag spoilers and other sensitive content, so please let me know if there is anything specific you want me to tag. You'll also find snippets and info about my fanfiction here. I'm HPfanonezillion of AO3 and fanfic.net. Same name used for my fanfic Tumblr. If you'd like to read my original content, you can go over to daniwritessometimes or all-my-broken-heartbeats.
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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
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)
Also this is not true. You do in fact have the copyright to the specific writing you did in a fic, because that’s not how copyright law works. Like this is not a grey area.
People who write IP content for corporations give up their copyright on a contractual basis–the company wants writing they can sell about characters/settings they own without getting entangled in royalty obligations etc, so they hire people. Who sign contracts saying they don’t own what they write as part of that job.
That’s why you don’t own Star Wars stuff you wrote for Disney; you specifically agreed not to own it.
Writing for IP you don’t own leaves you in a position where you can’t legally monetize it (without taking out the Owned parts ad rebranding), but it absolutely does not automatically cede or void copyright. That is super not a thing.
SUPER not a thing, I cannot say this enough.
I can’t sell my Batman fic, but neither can DC Comics without my duly authorized consent. Because they own Batman, but not the prose I composed about him.
Do not perform that kind of massive corporate overreach for them. Holy shit. Do they not own enough.
It’s fascinating that this misconception of copyright still exists. Haven’t we all seen the posts on here where authors beg fans to please not send them fanfic of their works? They’re not doing that because they feel like it, they do that because fans legally own their words and ideas, and an author who takes them even unintentionally can in fact end up in real legal trouble for taking something that’s not theirs. It doesn’t matter whether they own the canon.
I ended up writing more than one chapter on this one, so I decided to share the whole first chapter. I will tag below all the people who have interacted with the previous posts. Please let me know if you don’t want to be part of it and I can remove you. If you read this and decide you want updates, please let me know and I will add you to the tags in any future posts.
Love is Kind is book 2 of the Love Never Fails Series starring the Osborne siblings, To see the overview, please go here.
Jessalyn moved through the house. There were too many people. There were always too many people. The Osborne and Seymore-Wyndham families were together a lot, especially in the wake of the news that Audrey Seymour-Wyndham and Wulfric Osborne weren’t the siblings they always assumed they were as Audrey grew up.
She had reached the library and heard the laughter on the other side. Charlie, Athena, and Alec were inside. The three of them were often inseparable when everyone was together. And even more now that Athena and Charlie had finally married after the birth of Athena’s child with her late husband.
Jess opened up the door and smiled at the trio.
Charlie turned his head toward her. “Hello, Little Sister.”
“I still don’t understand how you can tell everyone apart.” Jess took a seat beside Athena and reached over to tickle her niece’s tiny foot.
“It’s the way you walk,” Charlie said. “Also, you always huff like you’re put upon when you walk into any room and find it occupied. Even though I am entirely certain you heard us in here.”
Jess stuck her tongue out at Charlie.
“Did she just stick her tongue out at me?” Charlie asked.
Alec chuckled. “She most certainly did.”
Charlie gave her a ruder gesture with his hand. The room erupted in laughter again.
Baby Charlotte started crying.
Athena made a face. “Time to get you upstairs to change your nappy.” She stood and walked across to Charlie. “Give your Papa love.”
“I’m coming with you.” Charlie stood and his hand easily found the small of Athena’s back.
Athena looked over her shoulder at Alec. “We’ll be back shortly.”
Jess waited until they were out of the room and then she closed the door. She turned. “I have an issue.”
Alec picked up a scientific journal from the table and stood. “I feel honored you have come to me. However, I am not sure how well I can help.” He made his way toward a shelf and put the book up before taking out another.
I’ve been thinking so much about this story!! I am happy to inform you that I have planned it to be a romantic travel story in which Alec takes Jessalyn on a tour of some famous art museums. Also, Alec in my original vision had no real interests, but as hinted with the scientific journals, he is very interested in biology and genetics. And he is very excited about discovery of dinosaur bones.
