Fanfics and Monetization

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Heartbreak117 said:
I don't deny that I was wrong. Never have, really. I know that I exploited the situation and I owe it. Now, I am trying to post my Original Story. Is there supposed to be a delay from when I first post it? You know, for review and stuff?
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Yes, there's usually a delay for a day or two at most.
 
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I recently been dealing with someone who has taken my Fan Fic and just been posting it everywhere under a new name while promoting their shitty website to sell PDF's. Most of their accounts have been taken down or the work has been deleted. But still that is fucking annoying.
 
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Tony said:
Sorry but for legal reasons, paypal/patreon/etc is banned in fanfics. Fanfictions are a legal gray zone and if we allowed financial gain of any kind, we would be legally compliant with copyright infringement.

There are detection in place to remove any paypal, patreon, etc... links if your story is a fanfiction.
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Can we monetize what we create? 🫪
 
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I wanted to check in here to see if a fanfic (generated by creating a cross-over) would be allowed without any pay links, and in what context it wouldn't be allowed.
 
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All fanfics are allowed as long as they are not monetized.
You can monetize them if you either own the IP used or have a permission from IP owner (written one).

Exception from this is when IP owner officially bans any sort of fan-made content, but that rarely happens as it would destroy their reputation fairly quickly.

That's global, not SH-only thing tho.
 
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Dec said:
All fanfics are allowed as long as they are not monetized.
You can monetize them if you either own the IP used or have a permission from IP owner (written one).

Exception from this is when IP owner officially bans any sort of fan-made content, but that rarely happens as it would destroy their reputation fairly quickly.

That's global, not SH-only thing tho.
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I think this clarifies it. I wasnt sure if merely having a donation possibly through regular user profile would count the same (assuming such is not mentioned in the Fanfic)
 
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Lysander_Works said:
I wasnt sure if merely having a donation possibly through regular user profile would count the same
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No, you can have it in your profile and in tipping settings (account settings -> author) the site provides, as those are automatically removed in the fanfiction genre (meaning, the "tip" button is removed).
You will only be in danger when you start trying to game the system by obscuring those links (p@treon, for example). And this is also the reason a lot of FF were taken down in past days.
 
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Dec said:
No, you can have it in your profile and in tipping settings (account settings -> author) the site provides, as those are automatically removed in the fanfiction genre (meaning, the "tip" button is removed).
You will only be in danger when you start trying to game the system by obscuring those links (p@treon, for example). And this is also the reason a lot of FF were taken down in past days.
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cool. looks like i got nothing to worry about
 
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JordanIda said:
Funny (or not so funny) how full length fan fic web novels are taken down and magically replaced with full length original web novels in a matter of days.

Indicative of the abuse.

Monetization and sanitization are close cousins. What's needed is a big spring cleaning.
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ah yes.
stealing goods, a crime.
selling stolen goods? almost as much a crime.
grinding the serial numbers off and selling them on Ebay?
l-e-g-a-l

you're describing grinding the serial numbers off.
 
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JordanIda said:
There are no original stories on AO3. One must declare a fandom, in order to post.
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*sigh* some people really do love pulling things out of their own ass.

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People have been posting original stories there since before this site and RR even existed. Lots of the short stories in here were posted there first. Look at this original story posted on AO3 in 2021 and on ScribbleHub in 2023...
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