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[soc_puppet]

Omegaverse Lawsuit Video Watch Party With thebibliosphere, tomorrow at 7pm US Central time. (Time conversion link at source.)

Long story short, some asshole author has been writing and selling Omegaverse romance novels (heterosexual Omegaverse romance novels), finds out another author is writing and selling much the same thing, tries to sue the second author over copyright of the concept of Omegaverse. It went to federal court. The video creator sums up what's going on, and then sums up the fallout from the first video, including lawsuit-happy author trying to take on the video creator in question, with Patreon and YouTube taking the video creator's side. And apparently there's hilarious reenactments of various conversations with other big YouTube names?

Anyway, I've been meaning to watch the first video for absolute ages, and only just found out about the second one, and Joy (thebibliosphere) is very appropriately named, so I sincerely do not want to miss these.

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[izzet_bedtime_yet]

I am not usually able to sit through YouTube... "talking head" I usually describe it... stuff but I put in the two hours today and this shit is hilarious. Like, I feel vaguely guilty for being so entertained by a self-aggrandizing bully trying to destroy everyone who doesn't bow down before her, but....

[soc_puppet]

The video maker did indeed do a damn good job of explaining the situation in an entertaining way, though the situation itself might also be considered amusing, if you consider the days of Fandom_Wank.

[izzet_bedtime_yet]

Yeah – though usually IIRC when "plagiarism" hit F_W it was because someone had egregiously ripped off someone else, rather than because the accuser was a colossal wanker unclear on how copyright law works.

(There was a time when I spent a lot of time on F_W. I have heard vague but unpleasant things about what happened to it after I moved on, but once upon a time some great comedies played out upon that stage and I miss getting them in convenient written form.)

[soc_puppet]

I'm pretty sure they'd be open to this particular case!

I've spent a fair amount of time there, myself; F_W was pretty big among CFUDers, and that was my primary fandom for close to five years, so I wanted to keep up with the memes. And fandom news in general. I also found it useful as a general archive of, well, fandom wank; it was... reassuring? To know that whatever the wank of the day was elsewhere, there was a good chance that some other fandom (or even the same fandom) had done it before and come out the other side, so could we skip to the end already.

Last I knew, the port over to Dreamwidth code, while otherwise successful, had basically destroyed the extant archive, and there were only two post attempts with only one response each. An important fandom monument, lost...