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Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

GurgleGerbil said:
I have no idea about the legality of it all.

I feel like the safe bet, if you're worried about getting sued, is to only share fanfiction and leave the original stories alone. I doubt you can get sued over a fanfic by the fanfic writer. Maybe I'm weird for never downloading anything, but it's just not a problem for me, so I've never put much thought into all of it before.
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Even if it is a fanfic, the author may not own the universe their story is in, they may not own many of the characters in the story. But anything original in that story belongs to them: Original characters, Original settings, Original plotlines as well as that particular original fanfic story. They are allowed to delete all postings on whatever site they used if they are moving to a different project, or even if they are just no longer writing. And doing so does not open that fanfic up for anyone to use willy nilly.
 
Dissimilate said:
Even if it is a fanfic, the author may not own the universe their story is in, they may not own many of the characters in the story. But anything original in that story belongs to them: Original characters, Original settings, Original plotlines as well as that particular original fanfic story. They are allowed to delete all postings on whatever site they used if they are moving to a different project, or even if they are just no longer writing. And doing so does not open that fanfic up for anyone to use willy nilly.
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Huh, I had no idea.

My gut just says 'surely no one will be shameless enough to sue someone else over a fanfiction'. My brain, on the other hand, says that someone absolutely is going to sue someone over fanfiction.

T_T
 
Saying that someone wrote something that they don't want to be associated with having written, even if it's true, is massively shitty. If someone is still an active user and you're openly discussing their prior works when they would prefer you did not, and are suggesting where people can go read them I cannot see how that wouldn't be a rule 1 violation, which does seem to actually be the official ruling.
 
GurgleGerbil said:
Huh, I had no idea.

My gut just says 'surely no one will be shameless enough to sue someone else over a fanfiction'. My brain, on the other hand, says that someone absolutely is going to sue someone over fanfiction.

T_T
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Honestly it would not be the first time for stupid lawsuits. And yes, I also consider it a stupid lawsuit but unfortunately that is just how laws work. But consider that an original character in a fanfic of one author, gets used by someone else in another (being rather sarcastic here) "completely original superhero story" (sarcasm in that the actual character belongs to that first author) and then a Marvel movie gets made of that character....thus you get a fanfic lawsuit for theft of an original character in a fanfic.
 
Dissimilate said:
[various claims that I'd be breaking the law]
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If I cared about laws, do you think I'd have written and published a fanfic that's arguably CP in my country? Do you think I'd have pirated a dozen VNs that are definitely CP in my country*? I subscribe to the philosophy of Paul Anka:

"For what is a man; what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels."

*Not porn of actual children; Australia considers fictional characters that "are or appear to be" under 18 to be children.
 
I guess we've already gotten our answer about Rules 3/7 and all, so no point in dragging this out anymore. To be honest, not really happy with how I feel when I'm thinking about all of this, so I'll do the healthy thing and see myself out now. Thank you to everyone for remaining polite during this discussion, regardless of your stance.

I'm gonna ignore the thread so I don't get tagged by it if someone replies to me, so don't feel offended if I don't respond back.
 
Yeah, unless I'm misreading, then I think the official position of the mod team here is pretty clearly "No, you cannot post links to deleted stories/fics nor can you shamelessly tell people where to find them, as that would be a dick move and therefore against Rule 1."

Not exactly hard to understand, to be honest.
 
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