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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Uh, no.
Stuff that might be confused with/substitute for the source devalues the brand, regardless of the quality.
Legally speaking that stuff is considered counterfeit.
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They don't even have to peddled under the original name.
The whole thing is tricky: stuff that defames the source is more likely to be legal than honest homage.  |
Fanfic tends to be tagged with
disclaimers that say things like "All rights reserved to the author, artist and this publication. This is solely a not-for-profit fan activity, and in no way intends to infringe on copyrights held by Paramount, Deslilu, Filmation or other professional Star Trek agencies."
or
"Disclaimer: These are works of purely speculative fiction. It is not intended to infringe on any rights by and of the companies and/or individuals involved in the production of any series mentioned here."
or the more casual,
"Not mine; if they were, I'd have a lot more money" or "I don't own these characters; I just play with them sometimes."
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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
You shouldn't have bolted on that "if you don't know, you don't want to", because now I actually want to know. So spill.
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OTP stands for "
one true pairing," someone's primary (or only) romantic interest in a particular fandom. OT3 started taking off when some people liked polyamorous trios more than pairings... Kirk/Spock/McCoy and Snape/Harry/Draco are sometimes OT3's, but fandoms where a trio is a common-and-large subject of fic are rare. White Collar is the only one I know of directly, but I believe there are others.
OT8 is (currently most often) Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Thor, Jane Foster, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton, and Pepper Potts, all romantically and/or sexually involved with each other. Sometimes the individual members get swapped out for others. It
starts tame, sometimes. Sometimes it's
less omnidirectional but still too tangled to sort into specific pairings much.