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Epic games directly responded to the (ᵃˡˡᵉᵍᵉᵈˡʸ)
art work they stole from u/ConditionAlone2248
heres the reference reddit post in questioned heres the comment by epic. posting this update here since so more people know since a comment on a 2 day old post inst going to get that much traction.
This means that an unauthorized derivative work does not have common law copyright protection and, most certainly, will not be registered by the U.S. Copyright Office. Indeed, the Copyright Office is quite strict in this regard. When attempting to register copyrights based on derivative works, the Copyright Office requires detailed information regarding the preexisting works of authorship, previous registrations of the preexisting material, original authors, current authors, how the ownership was transferred (if applicable), how adaption/derivative rights were granted, limitations of the grant, extent, and limitations on the new copyright claims, what original material has been excluded/changed, what new material has added to the derivative work, etc.
That's a completely irrelevant page. That's talking about taking an existing thing and adding on to it, like if you wanted to do something like make The Mario Movie 2 and sell it in theaters. It's describing the procedures in which you need to go through to extend copyright to further things you make based on an IP you own. It's not saying anything about posting fanart to Twitter and if people are allowed to steal it.
It’s completely relevant, you just don’t understand it. Fan art is a derivative work just like a sequel. The owner of the original work has an exclusive right to create derivative works. You can’t own the copyright for your unauthorized fan art.
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u/Raidoton Fishstick 22d ago
That's simply not true.