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FanFic writers are breaking the law

Doctor XFizzle

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...according to what I learned tonight in my Intellectual Property/Public Domain class!

 

Fan-created works are in violation of a copyright holder's right to derivative works. Derivative works include several forms of adaptations, like how a popular book gets a movie made out of it.

 

Thing is, franchises with fanatic fans (like Star Wars) typically don't do anything about it because they would alienate their largest supporters and thus lose tons of money.

 

So Fighting is Magic got taken down by the Hasbro machine mostly due to it being an unlicensed derivative work using copyrighted characters. Hasbro can go after all the fanfic writers too, but choose not to, yet had enough reason to go after Fighting is Magic I guess.

 

So uh yeah. Fancy that stuff.

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CHAOS_FANTAZY

The thing with most of them is, there are too many of us and too much ardence in our actions for them to possibly stop us all.  If Hasbro nuked FiMFiction off the face of the Internet right now, the Internet would just go and build another FiMFiction, even better than the last one.  Such is the true power of the fandom.  It is worth neither the time, nor the money, nor the effort it would take to destroy a fandom completely.  That is why no one has ever done it.

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SS Patches

well now that i know that i'm doing something illegal i shall enjoy writing more because everything's better when you break the law muhahahaha

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Fhaolan

Fighting is Magic was lost because Hasbro sold a license to create MLP video games to Gameloft, who then complained that FiM was creating unfair competition. Hasbro had to respond or Gameloft would have been able to claim a variety of damages, basically riding the MLP coattails forever for free.

 

For the same to happen to FiMFiction, 'Little, Brown', the publishing company who have the license for MLP novels would need to lodge a similar complaint about unfair competition. Probably using the various vanity printings of Fallout Equestria and such as the pretext.

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