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sleepynneko

Cowboy Bebop (1998)

thebarbieghost

Guys I love batman so much (/´△`＼)

burntundertones

devinellekurtz

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

strawbsonmars

good morning

tomfoolerytotality

Superman isn't woke. You're just so evil that you see a man doing acts of kindness and you think it's a targeted political agenda

1liv

KIM MU-YEOL as NA HWA-JIN in TEACH YOU A LESSON 1.10

jejejijiju

Nice day in Gotham

shadow-manor

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids. You won’t like what happens next.

ratherembarrassing

read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.

billybluboy

AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????

prof-grace-aspen

If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????

antifa-stray

mercurywells

Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.

naryrising

Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.

AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!

It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.

The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.