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

Comments

[syphilisdiller]

i filter out all a/b/o fic

[just444]

same

[jaydestarlight]

Me too. I don't like ABO and I low key don't get the appeal or why it's so popular.

[meetviolent]

Misogyny? It’s a way to cut women out entirely because men can now give birth and are also often given stereotypical feminine attributes.

[meetviolent]

I hate this.

[gillenvillain]

I could have gone the rest of my meager and apparently naive life, not knowing about these kinds of fics or that they're popular enough to publish...

[shittysoup]

Right!?!? This sounds like some weird furry/bestiality shit and I can't believe it's so popular...I'm absolutely kink shaming and I stand by it in this case tbh. wtf??

[nekoonna]

i think it's hilarious that all the published books mentioned in this article are m/f, when the whole trope was born in m/m and that's where most ppl know it from

[tsarinakate1]

Yes! Reading this synopsis I was thinking "Buuuut a/b/o is all about the mpreg???! People read straight versions of this shit?

[verschreibsel]

I’ve seen a ton of Rey/Kylo fics with it though. I don’t read the pairing but in passing when looking for finn/poe haha

[sjazzmreow]

I'm so fucking sick of mainstream* erotica always casting the woman in the submissive role. The ones mentioned in this article, 50 Shades, The Secretary - I feel like I never hear about anything other than dom-man/sub-woman outside of fanfiction and it is infuriating. Not only is it enforcing bullshit gender stereotypes, it's also just. so. boring.

*though god knows these two nobody writers are hardly genuinely mainstream

[squirrels_oh_no]

So basically Laurell K. Hamilton's earlier stuff. Ok.

[lifeinyouryears]

she hated fanfiction for someone who wrote what was definitely self insert Mary Sue

[squirrels_oh_no]

She based Richard on her husband that she then divorced, and then made Richard a complete asshole.

She based Micah on the president of her fanclub that she then started dating / married.

Girl...

[melancolour]

whaaaaaaat I did not know that about Micah

i stopped reading her books after the "lure " or whatever it was she got from her vamp bf resulted in wereleopard gangbangs for a whole book

[gingerywilson]