How sued would I get?

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  1. Suijin

    Suijin Blood God [Medic]

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    If I decide to write a Miss Marvel story that includes a good portion of MCU villains, and basically makes infinity war end far worse than it has?

    Can I write it off as fan fiction or is it risky?
     
  2. apricotsoda

    apricotsoda Shy Shy Shy

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  3. Avagantimos

    Avagantimos Chosen Undead|Bearer of the Curse|Ashen One

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    I think it’s fine as long as you don’t profit from it? Maybe Apricotsoda’s link has more info
     
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  4. Frozen ink

    Frozen ink Legally had harem『Cathulu』Power of Love & Evil』

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    you saw that guy who made a starwars fan film desu ka?
    yeah thats what gonna happen to you desu
     
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  5. Suijin

    Suijin Blood God [Medic]

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    except stan lee wont save me
     
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    Johnnycabra Well-Known Member

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    he was not sued by disney but instead by the company who owned the rights to the music. the guy tried to hard to make the composition original that it broke copyright law.
     
  7. lordbeirut

    lordbeirut Emperor of Perdition

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    Honestly, it ends up largely depending on the Author.
     
  8. Liyus

    Liyus Laksha's Desu~ Cat

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    A marvel fanfiction isn't a problem, as long you don't try to profit from it....
     
  9. Avagantimos

    Avagantimos Chosen Undead|Bearer of the Curse|Ashen One

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    Wat happened?
     
  10. tahzib1451

    tahzib1451 Title?is it food?

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    Star Wars Theory(SWT) cut a deal with LucasFilm to make a Vader fanfilm and they agreed on certain guidelines....episode 1 released Dec 20......flash forward 2019 Warner something under Disney Music stuck a copyright law coz the music sounds similar to the original Star Wars music like the good Samaritan(coz the ppl who made the music died).....then they threaten SWT if they challenge the strike then they gonna shut down the channel.....Disney earned $80000 from ad revenue by monetizig the video until Lucasfilm interfered and freed the video.....
     
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    reagents 11 disaster personified

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    Yeah something like that could happen... Easy money make anyone shameless.
     
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    tahzib1451 Title?is it food?

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    that music company even copystrike Angry Joe for his Spiderman Far from Home review coz the trailer had music.....the morons of Disney r so desperate for money(they lost significant amount) they r doing manual strikes on videos....
     
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  13. Avagantimos

    Avagantimos Chosen Undead|Bearer of the Curse|Ashen One

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    “It just works” -YouTube
    Also how scummy, Make something Star Wars. Ok. This is too much like Star Wars LAWSUIT
     
  14. Suijin

    Suijin Blood God [Medic]

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    ... hm.
    well~ I'll risk it.
     
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    Gandire Alea [Wicked Awesome Translator]

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    If you check fanfiction net, you’ll see that there are heaps of marvel fanfictions. Marvel knows that it’s there. If they were really against it, they’d have had the marvel section removed from the site. They won’t mind if you add another to the mix.
     
  16. Ai chan

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    You'll be fine, as long as you remove it when they send you a lawyer's letter of demand which insists that you stop sharing your affected stories. They can't simply take you to court, they will have to politely ask you to stop first. As long as you don't ignore the cease and desist letters, you won't be sued.
     
  17. KIZUKI

    KIZUKI 〈Shem's Minion〉《Fish licker》

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    It was warner chappell.....the same assholes that copyrighted the brithday song and made atleast 50 million of it before it was back to being public. If you want to raise your pitchforks do it to warner chappell.
     
  18. Simon

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    Just put the disclaimer 'this is a transformative work and not for sale' and whatever you do don't try to make money off it.

    Fanworks are totally fine to do, as long as people know what it is.
     
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    Good luck with that buddy. Just be careful with how you go about it.
     
  20. Yamcha

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    Depends on how much money you do out of it, how popular becomes and how attentive are the parties responsible for those specific copyrights.
     
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