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Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
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After all, not only would authors no longer be the creators and intellectual parents of their settings, they'd actually be guilty using the likeness and personage of countless others without their permission.
I think ... not entirely? Trademark is still a thing, as are specific artistic representations and writing styles. Biographies still have copyright, after all, even when the subjects of the biography are "public domain," as it were.
There would be impacts, for sure, but books would also continue to be sold.
Do you not need permission to write a biography on someone living?
Also, many authors would have written things that are DEEPLY intrusive into the lives of those featured. All fictional smut would come under question as the subject character's right not to be unwillingly 'taped' for porn became relevant.
If anything you make up is necessarily an accurate description of truth, I think that the concept of intrusiveness is more likely to go than the concept of "ORIGINAL CHARACTER DONUT STEAL."
"All persons, events, settings, etc. described herein are fictional in the context of this work's universe of origin, and any resemblance to actual persons, events, settings, etc. is strictly due to mathematical necessity, and is not otherwise intentional on the part of the author."
It could be treated kinda like fan dubbing, where it's okay to generate 'fiction' up until the point where that universe is actually discovered, at which point you have to stop distributing unlicensed versions.
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