does anyone else remember when it was considered a dick move to sell fanwork based on other smaller artists work? that prior to having more Official merchandise both Homestuck AND Undertale asked fans not to sell things with the exception of one-off commissions and/or contacting them to come up with some kind of agreement. and now I’m not saying No One had a problem with this I’m sure people did but in my experience most people found this reasonable (and still do this kinda “don’t be an asshole” mindset applies for many webcomics, “closed species”, bandcamp musician, and so on)

To me, and mind you I have no idea what exact licenses are being given/agreed upon here, this is an Understandable attempt at finding a balance point between making fandom happy and creatively prolific while also making it so that at least some of the bigger projects aren’t like Technically illegal as I said before in a perfect world none of this would ever be necessary but We live in a world where copyright not only exists but is strong enough for people to believe that having More Of It is what is going to stop various AI projects and the panthers will never eat Their face and so on.

If we are to at least attempt to play within the rules I dont really know of other alternatives

(wow when wrestling with the site on mobile a whole like page and a half got posted whoops whatever im not editing all this)