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When Fandom Drama Goes to Court
A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/business/omegaverse-erotica-copyright.html
This article is a wild ride, and I enjoyed every stop along the way.
You can bypass the site's paywall by opening the link in an incognito browser window, by the way. It feels weird to have to attach that sort of "how-to-access" information for a nationally syndicated newspaper, but I guess it's appropriate for an article about commercial fanfic writers suing each other over their novel-length Omegaverse stories.
As an aside, Anne Jamison covers a lot of similar drama regarding Twilight fanfic authors going pro in her (excellent) 2013 book Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World. There is nothing new under the sun, and what's under this particular sun is people taking their vampire and werewolf erotica way too seriously.
Anyway, the article's opening sentence?
Relatable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/business/omegaverse-erotica-copyright.html
As the rise of self-publishing has produced a flood of digital content, authors frequently use copyright notices to squash their competition. During a public hearing hosted by the U.S. Copyright Office in 2016, Stephen Worth, Amazon’s associate general counsel, said that fraudulent copyright complaints by authors accounted for “more than half of the takedown notices” the company receives. “We need to fix the problem of notices that are used improperly to attack others’ works maliciously,” he said.
In the Omegaverse case, Ms. Cain’s claim of copyright infringement against Ms. Ellis has struck some as especially tenuous. “They are not very original, either one of them,” said Kristina Busse, the author of “Framing Fan Fiction,” who has written academic essays about the Omegaverse and submitted expert witness testimony for the case on Ms. Ellis’s behalf. “They both stole from fandom or existing tropes in the wild.”
In the Omegaverse case, Ms. Cain’s claim of copyright infringement against Ms. Ellis has struck some as especially tenuous. “They are not very original, either one of them,” said Kristina Busse, the author of “Framing Fan Fiction,” who has written academic essays about the Omegaverse and submitted expert witness testimony for the case on Ms. Ellis’s behalf. “They both stole from fandom or existing tropes in the wild.”
This article is a wild ride, and I enjoyed every stop along the way.
You can bypass the site's paywall by opening the link in an incognito browser window, by the way. It feels weird to have to attach that sort of "how-to-access" information for a nationally syndicated newspaper, but I guess it's appropriate for an article about commercial fanfic writers suing each other over their novel-length Omegaverse stories.
As an aside, Anne Jamison covers a lot of similar drama regarding Twilight fanfic authors going pro in her (excellent) 2013 book Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World. There is nothing new under the sun, and what's under this particular sun is people taking their vampire and werewolf erotica way too seriously.
Anyway, the article's opening sentence?
Addison Cain was living in Kyoto, volunteering at a shrine and studying indigenous Japanese religion. She was supposed to be working on a scholarly book about her research, but started writing intensely erotic Batman fan fiction instead.
Relatable.
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