Can Fandom Tropes Be Copyrighted? The NY Times Covers a Lawsuit Involving Omegaverse Fiction

[zodgory]

A lawsuit involving online erotica raises a new question: can tropes from a fan-generated genre like the Omegaverse be copyrighted? @xanalter reports on a strange intellectual property dispute. https://t.co/yliBGeYpqL
- The New York Times (@nytimes) May 23, 2020
-Omegaverse (or A/B/O) as a concept originated as a fanfic trope from a prompt on the

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[readeliza]

I had no idea the Supernatural fandom was to blame for the atrocity that is omegaverse. Thanks a lot for inflicting that on the world, weirdos.

[ohmylol]

I hate how much I used to like that show

[tetrazzinichikn]

I watched it in college then all of law school, and I’ve been practicing law for ten years.

[readeliza]

Oh man, me too. It was my favorite show for a couple of years. I’ll still go back sometimes and watch the first couple of seasons, so obviously I don’t completely hate it, but as it went on I disliked it more and more and gave up by like season 4 or 5. The fact that it’s still on is baffling.

[meganlynn09]

I made it to the middle of season 6, and that was stretching it tbh

[packsofreasons]

1 and 2 were legitimately great television, I was obsessed back in the day. 4 and 5 is basically when I actively started disliking it too.

Here's my icon from a decade+ ago lmao.

[juanitatequila]

if you're able to track my comments from 2009-2010 literally all i ever talked about on ontd was supernatural...i even WENT TO A CONVENTION. UGH I AM DISGUSTED.

[gabzillaz]

I thought it was Teen Wolf. Should have known Supernatural had something to do with this nonsense.

[peddlestools]

Now I'm having flashbacks to that spn artist who made truly cursed content

[labhaoise]

Mythicawood?

[peddlestools]

Bingo

Does hypnosis work and can I pay to get those images removed from my brain? I can forget the name, but those those pictures

[labhaoise]

Man wonder if they are still churning them out

[piratesswoop]

mythagowood

they went on hiatus apparently in 2013 and then posted again in 2019 lmao

[abe_san]

oh god... the anuses one? those images still haunt me :'c

[gabzillaz]

90% of that fandom was cursed tbh