Datasets:
🚩 Report: Copyright infringement
This dataset includes my work from ao3, which I explicitly forbid to be used in any way other than entertainment on ao3.
Title: A Dark Retreat,
Subject/ Fandom: Pitch Black ~ Richard B Riddick
Are you Richard B Riddick?
No?
No?
Then why are you filing a DMCA for his copyrighted materials? Are you an agent working on his behalf?
Then why are you filing a DMCA for his copyrighted materials? Are you an agent working on his behalf?
If you actually knew what a DMCA was and were familiar with the law, you would know that transformative works are protected as the work is transformed from the original (hence "transformative work") making it a new work separate from the original. The original work of the fanfic (the plot, the dialogue, the way tropes are used, etc.) is protected. The fanfic authors own the copyright for their original work.
What you (and yes, YOU. We all know you're a sock of the uploader) did is wholesale steal these works and worse, you're using them for profit, which is AGAINST THE LAW. The US law. Where AO3 is based. Where jurisdiction will be applied. Just like people cannot post the whole of the Harry Potter books on AO3, you cannot put the whole of these works anywhere else without permission from the owner.
I don't think you can just say "you're the uploader" to everybody that disagrees or has questions - what off-putting behaviour. It's a fair question: at what point are the rights protected, when the original IP is not owned by those requesting it to be taken down? The story is protected, but the characters aren't, etc.
I made it very clear what is protected in my comment above. Original. Transformative. Work. That makes fanfiction fall under fair use. That is protected. Just like an artist who draws fanart of Mickey Mouse owns that piece of art that they themselves drew, despite not being Walt Disney, fic writers own their fics. That is their own intellectual property. The fact that you admit that the story is protected shows you know this dataset is violating copyright law.
As for characters, it's fairly easy: because fanfiction authors are not the original creators of the characters, they bring with them and their work their own interpretations of the characters. What they write could be regarded as completely out of character for the original version of the character, in which now they are not the same character. They could also just as easily replace the characters with new, original ones, and still tell the same plot. That further proves the derivative nature of the work.
And yeah, I'm going to be suspicious of a brand-new account whose only posts are these "gotchas" that make it clear they have no clue what the law is.
That is just simply not true.
What you (and yes, YOU. We all know you're a sock of the uploader)
Ah yes, the classic "everyone who disagrees with me is a sock/troll"
I'm actually a writer on AO3. It's partly why I'm here, because I wanted to archive the dataset—not for generative AI, but to put it on the wayback machine. There is also an archive of ffnet on there.
Because I am a writer, I know very well I do not hold copyright to fanfiction, because I do not own the work it is derived from. I do not own Naruto, Harry Potter, etc.
Even if I made an original character who was a ninja, I still would not own that character, because the idea of it is derived from a copyrighted work.
And yeah, I'm going to be suspicious of a brand-new account whose only posts are these "gotchas"
You're also a brand new account, so can I start accusing you of being a sock with 20 alts, all spamming fake DMCA on the comments?