Omegaverse Lawsuit
May. 23rd, 2020 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitThe Omegaverse lawsuit has hit the New York Times!
It was noted to me once that way copyright lawsuits are means that eventually if this goes on long enough some judge is going to have sit there reading a whole bunch of omegaverse erotica to determine whether there's copyright infringement, which I found an interesting thought at the time-- sure, judges have seen almost everything, but they're also generally pretty straitlaced.
But now it's in the NYT which means a whole bunch of people who were not already interested in this are being introduced to concepts like "knotting" and "mpreg".
And just... can you imagine what this looks like, from the outside, encountering it divorced from the context in which it sprang up? Supernatural basically built omegaverse from the ground up and from there it spread to the rest of Superwholock, and out into the rest of fandom. It is *intimately* connected to fandom culture.
It was noted to me once that way copyright lawsuits are means that eventually if this goes on long enough some judge is going to have sit there reading a whole bunch of omegaverse erotica to determine whether there's copyright infringement, which I found an interesting thought at the time-- sure, judges have seen almost everything, but they're also generally pretty straitlaced.
But now it's in the NYT which means a whole bunch of people who were not already interested in this are being introduced to concepts like "knotting" and "mpreg".
And just... can you imagine what this looks like, from the outside, encountering it divorced from the context in which it sprang up? Supernatural basically built omegaverse from the ground up and from there it spread to the rest of Superwholock, and out into the rest of fandom. It is *intimately* connected to fandom culture.
