FUCK YOU DISNEY
Anyways, yāall better start saving your fave fanfics and fanart under the Disney labels cause it looks like theyāre trying to curb fair use/fanworks and Iām sure thereās going to be mass panicked deletions even though itās probably unnecessary cause AO3ā²s legal team will fight for us.
You know that 400K yall were so fucking mad about OTW raising? Yeah, its gonna pay for the travel expenses and court costs that the legal team at AO3/OTW when they protect your shit from getting C&Ded. DO NOT DELETE YOUR STUFF! IF YOU GET CONTACTED BY DISNEY - GO TO THE ORGANIZATION OF TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS , CONTACT THEIR LEGAL ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT! ASK FOR HELP!! THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE IS *WHY* *THEY* *EXIST*
Note that Disney would have one Hell of a time serving C&Ds to authors at AO3 - because there is noĀ ācontact authorā option other than leaving a comment.
Theyād have to contact the SITE, which is to say, the Organization for Transformative Works, to deliver a C&D order or a DMCA takedown order.
And the OTW is not going to remove fics because someone sent a letter that saysĀ āactually those characters belong to me and you canāt use them that way.ā The OTW was created to FIGHT that kind of claim. They are ready.Ā
Donāt delete your fics out of fear. WE OWN THE SERVERS. They canāt threaten the hosts into deleting anything.
And if Disney thought they had a strong legal case against fanfic, theyādāve shut down the archive a decade ago, when it was penniless and unknown, instead of waiting until it had won several battles in Congress and got worldwide acclaim for a Hugo Award.


















