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Some creators don't like Fan Works and actively discourage — if not outright prevent — fans from creating, posting, or publishing their fan work. Although such a ban encompasses all Fan Work, it seems to happen most often to Fan Fiction; hence, most creators who try to enact a fanwork ban tend to be writers. The reasons for such a ban vary, but it's usually one of these: The most obvious reason is to protect the author's copyright. After all, fanfic is (arguably) copyright infringement, and authors don't like fans potentially eating into their profit margin, especially where they want fans to buy The Merch or other officially sanctioned material. A related concern is that an author could accidentally (or not) write a story that uses some of the same elements as an existing fanwork, allowing the fan to turn the tables and sue the author for copyright infringement. Although most fanwork authors don't make any money from the work themselves, it's increasingly common for them to publicize their fanwork to draw attention to unrelated projects they do make money from, and the line between good faith and bad faith isn't always clear. Many authors don't like seeing sexually explicit fanworks. While not all fanwork is sexually explicit, an alarming percentage of it is — after all, Rule 34 says that if it exists, there's porn of it. And fanfic authors take a particular delight in adding sexual elements to otherwise non-sexual works (sometimes through a Demographic-Dissonant Crossover). Some authors just have an emotional attachment to their work and characters and don't like seeing them in explicit situations. Others might be concerned that younger fans could stumble upon the explicit stuff. And still others, especially big content producers like Disney, are really protective of their intellectual property and its image. While some authors are okay with fanwork as long as it's not explicit, others might just not be up to selectively banning fanwork and will block all of it outright. Some authors don't like the concept of fanwork. In some cases, they might ban Fan Fiction but not Fan Art, the idea being that creating your own characters and universe is a vital part of writing. In other cases, they don't like the implication that fans can create work in the author's universe just as well as the author can (some detractors might counter that the whole purpose is to prove that this is true). And still other authors find fanfic disrespectful because it needs to be as good as the author's work to preserve the Original Flavour and the integrity of the setting and characters; such authors might set rules as to what can and can't happen in a fanwork or where it can be set (e.g. only allowing Elsewhere Fic, enforcing Doomed by Canon and/or Saved by Canon etc). Some authors might be protective of the nature of their ongoing work. For instance, they might ban works about a certain character's origin story because they're planning on doing it themselves later. Some works are subject to Creator Backlash, and creators might discourage or ban fanworks of these works because they don't want to draw attention to them. In general, a fanwork ban is not a good thing to happen to a fanbase. While it may (but probably won't) accomplish one of the above-stated goals, a fanwork community is one of the most powerful ways to consolidate the fanbase and generate enthusiasm around the work. In extreme cases, it can drastically diminish a fanbase by discouraging them from talking about the work at all on the Internet, meaning that people who discover the work can't connect with other fans of the work (or run into massive Flame Wars about the fanwork ban). The parent organization of Archive of Our Own, the Organization of Transformative Works, was founded to fight against fanwork bans and argue that fanworks are a type of "transformative work", protected under copyright rules. Contrast with Approval of God and Staff-Created Fan Work. Compare and contrast Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us! (which is when the characters react with alarm to the existence of fan content). Compare Restricted Expanded Universe, when the authors and executives do this to licensed derivative media. See also Rule 34 – Creator Reactions. This is often tongue-in-cheek, and rarely done by creators who aren't actually fine with it. |
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Speaking about replicas, Ferrari had blown a lawsuit on Miami Vice producers after a fake Ferrari Daytona got famous. The company settled by giving the producers two free genuine Testarossas in exchange for destroying the Daytona in an episode. | |
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The fan community for Channel Awesome likes writing explicit fanfic about the characters. The site's personalities are split on the subject. Some hosts don't mind it at all (Doug Walker actively ships his own character with his brother, sometimes in livestreams with his wife right behind him). Others don't want to be in explicit fics — Nash Bozard asks that he only appear in fics rated "General" or lower). JesuOtaku lashed out at fan artists and got the community to put a complete ban on fanworks involving him. And there's an overarching (yet unofficial) rule that fanfic shouldn't feature two producers if they previously dated and the breakup wasn't pretty (e.g. Iron Liz wants no fanart with her and her ex-boyfriend Linkara). | |
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The mods of the official Discord server are especially harsh on mashups of Arcaea songs with CupcakKe songs (a popular meme that has been done with much of the game's soundtrack), due to not only violating the "don't use in-game assets" policy but also because the latter's songs are extremely NSFW, and NSFW content is a violation of another server rule. This isn't met with just an "R4" citation, often times it will result in "we do not tolerate this content." | |
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Dragon Quest VII was going to receive a fan translation on the Nintendo 3DS, but the project was cancelled due to a cease and desist. Later, Square Enix decided to allow Nintendo to localize the game officially on the Nintendo 3DS, albeit with the orchestral soundtrack replaced with a MIDI one. | |
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The rulebook for Mobile Frame Zero urges you, when creating your own faction, to avoid portraying authoritarianism or anarcho-capitalism positively, and specifically forbids basing anything on the Nazis or naming your frames in reference to them. | |
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There was a time when Fox would crack down hard on The Simpsons porn. In the early 2000s, they were able to successfully shut down several Simpsons fansites (lampshaded in "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes", when Lisa tells Homer his website is just full of copyrighted material from other websites). But the sites keep popping up, and Fox has since given up. | |
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The makers of Mount & Blade, fearing retribution of this sort, prohibited the official Taleworlds discussion board from granting subforums to mods based on novels or movies subject to fanwork bans. | |
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Bill Holbrook has discouraged fanart and fanfiction of Kevin & Kell, feeling that it weakens his copyright protection. He now has a DeviantArt community for fanart, but fanfic is still a no-go. | |
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The fangame My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic was so popular that it was entered into EVO, a tournament so big that Hasbro couldn't ignore the threat to its IP and was forced to shut it down. The developers went on to make an original game a lot like it, called Them's Fightin' Herds, with Lauren Faust herself as the character designer. (And there's a Fighting Is Magic: Tribute Edition, if you still want the original ponies, but don't ask too loudly.) | |
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Uma Musume famously forbids Rule 34 fanworks of the characters, as they are based on real-life race horses. It is famously alleged that the Yakuza is involved to enforce the rule (this has neither been confirmed nor denied). Other titles by Cygames with completely fictional characters do not have this rule, and if any pornographic art of it exists, it's very under the radar and likely from outside of Japan. | |
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Halogen, a Command & Conquer: Generals mod set in the Halo universe, was given a cease and desist due to it clashing with the then upcoming Halo Wars Real-Time Strategy game. | |
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Ultima Online zig-zags with the trope with its "free shards", reverse-engineered copies of the MMO, which provides fans with highly moddable versions of the game. Even Game Moderators and Event Managers own and create these shards, and some of the coolest ones are even used as the basis for new expansions and patches. But the terms of service explicitly say that playing on a free shard will get your account permanently banned; thankfully, this term is not really enforced. | |
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A fan animator named Jan produced several near-show-quality shorts that met with critical reception and praise, including Lauren Faust herself and others who worked on the show. He was even asked to do some of the animated segments of Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony. But the shoe dropped when he started making Button's Adventures, a spin-off series based on a background colt. That was too far for Hasbro, who sent cease-and-desist orders to take down all his videos (including what he made for the Brony documentary) and to agree never to make any more pony animations; since then, only very few of them have been cleared by the Hasbro legal team to go back up. | |
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NHK is notorious for taking down any videos of its' children's series such as Okaasan to Issho, Inai Inai Baa!, Eigo De Asobou and Miitsuketa!, which is why it is rare to find full episodes of them online. This even applies to their older series such as Hitori de Dekiru Mon! and older episodes of the aformentioned series. For some reason, foreign dubs of their series seem to be exempt from this, such as the Spanish dub of Inai Inai Baa! and the Chinese dub of Okaasan to Issho segment Doremifa Donuts. | |
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Pat Mills has forbidden fanwork based on Nemesis the Warlock, apparently to avoid diluting the original story. However, his other comics, including ABC Warriors and Sláine, are fair game, although 2000 AD's official website won't accept new stories based on any of Mills' work. | |
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Team Fortress 2 Classic and Open Fortress are substantial Game Mods that were subject to a bizarre, inconsistent case of this. Both released in 2020 as separate reimaginings of Team Fortress 2 via trimming the excess features of the current game for return a hassle-free return to basics of its 2007-2009 era, they were taken down from download in November 2021 after Valve stepped in due to the mods being built from reverse-engineering TF2's source code (which was leaked in 2008), violating their terms of service. However, their removal request was also tied to an offer to allow for fully-fledged releases of the mods on Steam, a practice with fan content that's been in Valve's wheelhouse for over a decade, but once the respective developers accepted the offer, Valve went completely silent. After months of being unable to get a response from Valve on how to proceed, they each sent an ultimatum in March 2022 informing Valve of their intentions to reopen the mods, presenting an opportunity to object and reaffirm their offers, which still prompted no reaction whatsoever from Valve. Both mods were reinstated for download on June 2022 until further notice. | |
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A month after Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ came out on Steam. Sega would release a patch that according to them, was meant to fix some bugs. However, as modders quickly found out, this patch actually disables the mod loader that had been created for the game, leading many fans to speculate that Sega made the patch specifically to impose this and prevent users from adding fan-made mods to the game. Sega's attempt to circumvent modding would end up failing however, as modders quickly got around this only days after the patch came out. | |
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Nostalrius was a fan run World of Warcraft "Vanilla" server that attempted to recreate the original game experience and ran for over a year before being shut down due to a cease and desist. This came as Blizzard was preparing World of Warcraft: Classic to cash in on the nostalgia potential of re-releasing the original game. | |
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The Spyro the Dragon fan-game Spyro: Myths Awaken was cancelled due to a cease-and-desist. It was turned into Zera: Myths Awaken, which stars a new protagonist. | |
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Andrew Hussie (or rather, his girlfriend and business manager Rachel) bans all for-profit fanwork of Homestuck except for one-time commissions of graphic art. Non-commercial fanwork is still okay. Unfortunately, Hussie's more zealous fans go much further and threaten to "report" Homestuck fan artists to Hussie so he can sue them, regardless of whether the work is for-profit or a one-time commission. This leads some conventions to maintain a blanket ban on Homestuck-related art and artists refusing to draw Homestuck commissions, just to avoid these annoying fans. Ironically, T-shirts with Homestuck fanart (as selected from contests) were later sold at Hot Topic, and the post-canon Homestuck writing team is dominated by former fans who often incorporate fanon into the new canon anyway. | |
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The Knights of the Old Republic Unreal Engine 4 fan remake "Apeiron" was given a cease-and-desist. | |
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The Tolkien Estate is very strict when it comes to creating fanworks based on Tolkien's Legendarium: "The Tolkien Estate has a duty to protect the integrity of Tolkien’s original writings and artworks and takes copyright very seriously. This means that you cannot copy any part of Tolkien’s writings or images, nor can you create materials which refer to the characters, stories, places, events or other elements contained in any of Tolkien’s works." Despite the proselytizing, they don't care that much about Tolkien-inspired works as long as they are not used for selling. In March 2023, an obscure author, Demetrious Polychron, started to sell an unauthorized ‘Lord of the Rings’ Sequel on the Amazon, called The Fellowship of the King, and got sued by the Estate. In a twist of events, same author filed his own copyright suit against the Tolkien Estate and Amazon weeks earlier, accusing them of plagiarizing the plot of his book for the 2022 TV series. | |
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Konami sent a cease and desist to dejawolf, the creator of a Castlevania remake in Unreal Engine, stopping further development of the project. | |
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Fellow developer Broccoli also impose same rules. | |
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While not an outright ban, Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, has said that while he is totally fine with fan work of all types, he would prefer that Rule 34 work be given the #undertail tag to keep it separate from the main body of work, because "It's a family friendly show!" | |
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Blizzard will seek and destroy any porn using assets from Overwatch. But if you use fan-made assets, they'll leave you alone. | |
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Conversely, Tale of Two Wastelands, which allows Fallout 3 to be played in the slightly more up-to-date Fallout: New Vegas engine, circumvented this by pulling the assets directly from the player's installed copy of Fallout 3, which avoids circulating the assets of the game altogether. | |
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Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling doesn't mind fans writing fanfic and doing other fannish things, recognizing that this helps consolidate the fan community. She does, however, dislike sexually explicit fanfics. Part of it is to avoid younger fans accidentally stumbling upon them. She has also been known to stop fans from publishing things she was planning to do herself: for instance, the Harry Potter Lexicon, a popular online Harry Potter encyclopedia, existed just fine on the Internet but couldn't be published in book format for a long time because Rowling was thinking of publishing a Harry Potter encyclopedia of her own (it didn't happen, and a heavily modified version of the Lexicon did eventually see print). | |
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Neopets contains many original submissions which have their own rules which fans must follow if they want to make fanworks (mostly of the No Hugging, No Kissing variety). However, they also explicitly allow Fair Use derivative works or content covered by the Nickelodeon terms of service (which covers Neopets, Petpet Park, Nicktropolis, and Monkey Quest). | |
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LEGO sent cease-and-desist notices to video game fan art site VGBoxArt over copyright infringement concerns, leading to a rule that explicitly forbade any LEGO-related video game covers on the site, although a number of them still slip through the cracks. | |
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Sega sent a cease-and-desist order to the makers of a Streets of Rage remake. Frustratingly, the fans told Sega about the project themselves hoping to hold off any problems; Sega did nothing until the game was finished. Even more frustratingly, Sega never made their own remake or port of any Streets of Rage game. The fan game was eventually released on the Internet and can still be found if you know where to look. This was slightly mitigated years later, when SEGA announced that they licensed DotEmu to make a new game for the franchise, which can make you think that SEGA may be using the fan-remake to spread the word that the franchise still lives, but issued the cease-and-desist once they have enough idea on what to put in their own game after observing how the remake did it; several elements of the remake did make it to the actual Streets of Rage 4 (including retro versions of the previous installments' characters). | |
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In the aftermath of a legal quagmire regarding the Star Trek Fan Film Prelude to Axanar and its sequel Axanar, Paramount Pictures (who are the legal holders of the franchise) didn't explicitly ban Star Trek Fan Films from being made, but they did impose some pretty severe limitations to their creation. They included a 30-minute maximum time limit on "feature-length" films, killing "original series" by preventing any fan's original characters from appearing in any other works, preventing anything they defined as "profit-making" (including raising or crowdsourcing money), and requiring official Trek gear to be used (and if you made your own, you couldn't sell it in any fashion). This has largely killed, or at least culled most interest in anything other than Fanfic due to the restrictions, and a massive amount of Fan Backlash for the company itself because of Paramount's behavior. While fans still love Trek, Paramount's reputation with fans has yet to fully recover. | |
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A fan translation of Final Fantasy Type-0 on the PSP was around 75% complete before being issued a cease and desist. The Mobile Phone Game Final Fantasy Agito was also to receive a fan translation, but was cancelled due to a cease and desist, though the game was ultimately not localized in North America and Europe. | |
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Eric W. Schwartz allows Sabrina Online fanworks of all types, with one hard and fast exception: No adult works featuring Sabrina herself. This seems to be a case of "I don't do it, so neither will you", since he doesn't publish any art harder than "cheesecake-y pinups" of Sabrina. | |
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Aurora (4X)'s developer Steve Walmsley is very protective of his game and initially banned all modding altogether at the threat of shelving the entire project, although he eventually relented and allowed mods personally approved by him. The reason given was "to avoid false bug reports and competing versions". | |
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The fate of SSSS.GRIDMAN’s fanwork community does not look good due to Tsuburaya subtlely yet effectively imposing this in a FAQ on its website. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin disapproves of fan fiction, but he's okay with fan art. His main objections are copyright concerns (often citing the Marion Zimmer Bradley incident mentioned below) and a belief that fan fiction is bad practice for an aspiring writer since creating and developing one's own characters and setting are an integral part of writing. He likens fan fic to an artist learning to draw by doing paint-by-numbers. Fan art, on the other hand, still requires genuine skill, so it doesn't bother him as much. | |
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Mike Russell seems to heavily discourage any kind of fanfiction (but not fanart) of The World of Vicki Fox unless it strictly takes place in a similar setting as the original. | |
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Fan-made charts of songs produced for the game, whether for use in "custom song" games like osu! or StepMania or in Arcaea simulators, which themselves are banned as well. | |
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ZUN, creator of Touhou Project, is generally very supportive of fanworks, but had a set of official usage guidelines which (among other things) didn't allow to sell fanworks online, or crowdfund them, however distributing through Steam and similar platforms wasn't allowed until 2017, as after Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons was released on that platform (being the very first official Touhou game to be released worldwide), that apparently wasn't a problem for him anymore. After that, several fangames such as The Disappearing of Gensokyo got a Steam release. Less formally, he also asks creators to include an I Do Not Own disclaimer and to avoid names which could lead to their project being confused for an official work. | |
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FusionFall Legacy, a fanmade continuation of the now-defunct FusionFall was originally planned to have Total Drama characters, with Chris McLean being shown off as an NPC before a claim from Fresh TV requested that he and the TD universe be removed. | |
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Jack Chick would legally attack any parody of his tracts, claiming "It's only fair use if you draw everything yourself." The relevant copyright laws say otherwise. | |
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Ctrl+Alt+Del: Author Tim Buckley issued a pretty derisive and considerably assholish cease-and-desist letter to an unsuspecting fan who dared to make a fan video about his comic. It was later discovered that Buckley was planning on making an animated series himself and sell it online at a considerably high price. Tim was able to get it off the series off the ground, eventually. And then it crashed and burned, but that's another story. Buckley also allegedly threatened to cancel the comic if he saw anyone make Rule 34 of the characters. Much like Fred Gallagher and Megatokyo, Buckley backed down when he realized he was basically giving the comic's massive hatedom a powerful weapon against him. |
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Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of the Dead or Alive series, sued a modding community that was making nude mods of the series' female characters. On top of the legal complaints, he claimed that the characters were like "his daughters" and that the mods were akin to violating them. That comment, though, doesn't gel with the sheer amount of Fanservice involving the characters in the series itself, or with the massive amounts of Hentai Doujinshi featuring them that he and Tecmo consistently ignored. Scuttlebutt suggested that he sued the community because it was American and not Japanese. Another reason for the last point might be that Hentai Doujinshi in general are counted as "parodies" that are 100% separate from the franchise that they're depicting, therefore cannot be confused as "official material", and most Hentai fanworks don't directly tamper with official game resources. Most Hentai Doujinshi in general are not even allowed to mention the names of the franchise on their titles. See first entry on Anime/Manga folder. |
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Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content once stated that while he's "okay" with other people making images of his characters in sexual situations, he draws the line at such drawings of underage characters (specifically Samantha Bean, the daughter of the owner of "The Secret Bakery"). He went on to wish that those who drew Sam naked would "die in a car fire". | |
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Back when Barney & Friends was at the height of its popularity, The Lyons Group would try and stop unauthorized appearances of Barney lookalike costumes at public events. They also sued the creators of a plush doll called Dino Buddy that resembled Barney. | |
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Michelle Czajkowski, author of Ava's Demon has explicitly disapproved of crossovers with their characters or concepts, which led to a fair amount of drama after a Homestuck crossover. | |
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Upcoming projects Skywind and Skyblivion, which seek to remake Morrowind and Oblivion respectively in the Skyrim engine, have circumvented this by remaking all of the required assets by hand, including the daunting task of rerecording every voice line, which explains why the projects have been multiple years in the making. | |
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Arika heavily frowns upon clones/simulators of Tetris: The Grand Master such as NullpoMino and Texmaster although they have not taken any large-scale action to shut those games down and prevent further distribution. However, on YouTube effective January 1, 2019, videos of those clones (as well as other violations of their TGM video guidelines) will be met with copyright strikes. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist has an odd example, as the fanwork in question, a Fan Film called Fullmetal Fantasy, was created by the official U.S. dub cast, headed by Vic Mignogna. Mignogna showed it at a couple of fan conventions and wanted to work through the proper channels to get permission for a DVD release, but the legal people said no. After a couple of years, he was told that although there was no way there would be an official release, he could start running it at conventions again — if and only if it never showed up online. So whenever he shows it at a convention, he relates this story beforehand and makes the fans promise not to videotape and upload it. The film was eventually leaked online in 2020, after Vic fell from grace after multiple sexual harrasement accusations. | |
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Welcome to Night Vale actively encourages fan art, fiction, and other projects. However, they have a ban on doing any fan projects for profit, since selling merch is the primary way the creators support the podcast, and as a small indie operation, they can't compete with fan art the way bigger companies can. Night Vale Presents has also sent cease-and-desist notices to creators of fake podcasts based on the show, ostensibly to avoid confusion with the real thing (it's estimated that the fanbase has created over three times as many fake episodes than there are real episodes). | |
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The Yogscast have outright said that they like fan art and fan fiction, but ask that the latter is not put in the main tag on Tumblr and kept in the separate #yogfic tag (which caused a small ruckus when the Yogs read some on a livestream, without consulting the author). Hannah Rutherford has a very negative reaction to shipping in particular, although this is mostly due to some rather disturbing stories written about her. William Strife has nothing against fanart, but has noted that he's not a fan of being shipped with Parv. Then Tumblr changed their search function so that it no longer recognizes tags, which makes it harder to sequester fanfics. | |
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Akimoto is supposedly very protective of his AKB48 label and the fanwork ban may be restrictive towards AKB0048. | |
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Arcaea has a derivative works policy that bans, among other things (which is part of the official Discord server's infamous Rule #4, or "R4" for short): Works with in-game assets like character portraits. This extends to memes as well, and in the official Discord server, posting memes with obviously-ripped graphical assets or audio assets (such as music) will be met with moderator intervention (however, if the meme is using a screenshot, it is okay). Fanart, fan remixes, and similar are fine, so long as they aren't tracing the aforementioned assets or just extra sounds over the existing audio. Fan-made charts of songs produced for the game, whether for use in "custom song" games like osu! or StepMania or in Arcaea simulators, which themselves are banned as well. The mods of the official Discord server are especially harsh on mashups of Arcaea songs with CupcakKe songs (a popular meme that has been done with much of the game's soundtrack), due to not only violating the "don't use in-game assets" policy but also because the latter's songs are extremely NSFW, and NSFW content is a violation of another server rule. This isn't met with just an "R4" citation, often times it will result in "we do not tolerate this content." |
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Fans of Bordertown had to follow some rules outlined by creator Terri Windling if they wanted to create fan works. Of course, any fan work had to be non-commercial; additionally, works were required to include a specific copyright disclaimer, existing characters could only be used with permission from the characters' respective creators (Windling gave permission for a handful of her characters in the rules themselves), and dramatic and gaming rights were strictly reserved by Windling. Said rules were at one point detailed on the official website, but were taken down. Fortunately, they were archived by a fan site. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The official Bilibili page places a few restrictions on what posts can be made there, one of which is that no shipping between any Pleasant Goat characters besides Wolffy x Wolnie is allowed due to it being against the wishes of the producers. | |
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This is also why the Forza games have stopped labelling the names of engine swaps since Forza Motorsport 5; Ferrari's dislike of modifications extends to gamers putting virtual Ferrari engines in virtual non-Ferrari cars, as this game was the first in the Massive Multiplayer Crossover series to allow cross-manufacturer engine swaps , so the developers went for generic descriptor names as a loophole. | |
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OutRun 2 includes modified Ferraris (many of them based off historical racing models) as unlockable vehicles, most likely as a Grandfather Clause; the original game famously features a topless Testarossa, which has never been officially mass-produced in real life. | |
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The fan-made system PokéRole, a Pokémon based tabletop, has a lengthy history with this trope. The PokéRole devs have an absolute blood oath against people making Fakemon for the system thanks to a former dev having a complete public meltdown over the devs refusing to allow him to insert his Fakemon into the actual system. It's a downplayed example, however, as they only really have a problem with people posting it to the official Discord, and have begrudgingly admitted they can't stop people from making Fakemon for their own games. They have even made the formula for how they converted Pokémon to the system public. | |
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Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes was a Chrono Trigger fan game with over 35 hours of gameplay and eleven endings that was cancelled due to a(n alleged) cease and desist.note Long story short, the C&D's nature is extremely dubious but nobody wants to verify it and risk poking the hornets' nest. | |
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Ghost of True Capitalist has implied such a ban on his radio show, owing to his displeasure of people compromising the integrity of his "serious" online political talk show by splicing his voice together to make remixes and make him say things he never said. He has a "Shit List" of people he's caught doing this (including the makers of "Melting Pot of Alcohol"). But to his credit, he hasn't tried to force YouTube to take the videos down. | |
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The Tetris Company is hugely protective of the Tetris brand. If you dare to use the name Tetris® or even so much as create a game that involves falling tetriminos, without paying the proper license fees and royalties, prepare for a cease-and-desist letter. They have sent DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for videos just featuring unofficial Tetris clones. They have even gone as far as threatening legal action against fans who pointedly use only elements that cannot legally be copyrighted,note A U.S. federal court said so in Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc., 49 F.3d 807 (1st Cir. 1995). The Supreme Court was tied 4-4, though. 516 U.S. 233 (1996). using meritless legal claims for intimidation (in a strategy known as a SLAPP). Their stance causes particular headaches to fans of Tetris: The Grand Master, which wasn't released outside Japannote a port of the first game was eventually released as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives, with the second following afterwards. Ironically enough, Tetris was created in the Soviet Union by a government employee and was thus originally in the public domain. | |
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Paddington and Company Limited, the owners of the Paddington Bear franchise, understandably does not approve of pornographic images of their family-friendly characters (especially their namesake), as the company's name appears on e621's Do Not Post list.note It initially seemed they were forbidding all imagery relating to the characters over there, but it was later clarified through another edit that only explicit imagery featuring their characters are forbidden; Safe For Work posts are still allowed. | |
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John Norman is known to be hostile to Gor fanfics. | |
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KC Green, author of Gunshow, has previously attempted to erase fan edits of his comics from the Internet, for all the good that does. "Feminist Robot" and "Ghost Blowjob" are some of the most famous, to the point where the latter certainly overshadows the original strip entirely. | |
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Kingdom Hearts fans in Japan present a weird case; Japan doesn't like fanwork bans, but Kingdom Hearts uses Disney characters, and Disney is famous worldwide for its aggressive cease-and-desist orders. Fans keep their fanwork sites as secret as possible, hiding them under passwords and the like, and they're remarkably restrained with Rule 34 works (much more so than the Western fandom, which is used to the underlying threat). They even put Censor Boxes over Disney characters' eyes to "hide" their identities. But the fear only extends to the Disney characters; other characters like Sora and the Organization XIII are okay. | |
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There was an official fanfiction ban during the original broadcast run of Babylon 5. This was instituted after the creator, J. Michael Straczynski, was forced by Warner Bros. lawyers to prove that he had planned the main plot of the episode "Passing Through Gethsemane" before a fan on Usenet had independently suggested that such a story would be cool. | |
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Zig-zagged with The Silver Lining. After dealing with a cease and desist from both Vivendi and Activision, Activision has granted Phoenix Online Publishing the right to distribute the game, but chapter 5 remains vaporware. | |
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