Is binding fanfiction legal and ethical? Let's talk about it while I bind a fic!

[@eepmeep8550]

It's like how medieval people would make their own books (or have books made for them) with the stories they like.

[@Lily-bj2pe]

If someone ever told me they printed out (let alone BOUND) one of my fics, just to have it, I would legit cry. It's such a sweet way of knowing that someone liked my fic enough to make it a physical thing in the world.

[@wannabeehoneybee]

12:50 "and even unintentionally, we create archives and we become archivists" made me think of The Magnus Archives and the want, no, need, to become the Jürgen Lightner of fanfiction has awakened in me 😂

[@Eclecticgirl17]

Very interesting video. I didn't know people were binding fanfictions and that there was copyright issues. The more you know

[@artbylgo]

@@Eclecticgirl17 I didn’t know much about it either actually! I started learning about it around 2023 after the author bizzarstars had removed all there ficus from ao3

[@somelucifrostguy9208]

I got a long-term thing I wanna bind myself once I finish it. Although I haven't found many fics that have given me the urge to bind them. What I seek fanworks of is oftentimes so niche and specific, there's hardly anything there. Even so, I'll admit to being a stranger to these lands, given I wasn't much of a fanfic reader till recently.

[@CG6771]

This is really good.

[@artbylgo]

@@CG6771 thanks you!

[@Chociewitka]

What happens when the original work's copyright expires shortly? - As then the fanfic-author might wish to publish his/her fanfiction him/-herself once this happens, binding could potentially infringe on the fanfic-author's copyright?

[@artbylgo]

@@Chociewitka yes, because it is still the fanfic author’s intellectual property despite the source material being non copyright

[@Chociewitka]

@@artbylgo indeed so I do think binding fanfiction that could soon be published is problematic if the fanfic author does not o.k. it

[@cristinajadimartins2652]

@@Chociewitka I am not a lawyer, but I am an author and generally speaking no author is going to knock at your door to sue you because you bound 1 singular unit of a work that you've acquired legally and you didn't even sell and it's like for yourself. Authors do have to take precautions against illegal copies of their work, so like if we let it be common practice for any store at any corner to xerox a whole book that could be bad for us legally. Just use common sense and don't open a store where you sell bootleg bound versions of a book you've bought the PDF of once in someone's patreon and it won't run fanbiding for everybody.

[@rachelogea1201]

Excellent.

[@whatcanidooo]

I love this video big youtube recommendations w

[@felipemacchione]

Cringe