• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I fully agree, but I also think that there’s too much focus these days on official canon. Copyright might mean that only one big giant corporation is allowed to make stories “set” in a particular universe, but that shouldn’t mean that fans can’t decide for themselves “nope, that was lame, I reject that particular bit.” And if enough fans share that opinion the big giant corporation might want to listen to them.

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      1 year ago

      Would love if multiple authors could create a shared open IP, where anyone can create commercial works derived from it (as long as they dont copy and re-publish the work itself), without needing permission from an IP holder for every work. And canon and fanon is the same thing, if an author writes a plot, that work would gets rejected or included by other authors opinion of it.

      1632 series did kindof that, I think, in that they publish fan-fiction and refer to it in main stories. But thats just through one publisher. And did the fan-authors get royalties for that book sale? Idk.