> the early days of the internet where people wanted to remove free fanfiction for violations of copyright laws This is reinforcing my suspicion that there's g

> the early days of the internet where people wanted to remove free fanfiction for violations of copyright laws This is reinforcing my suspicion that there's gross misunderstanding between creator adjacents and non-creators: Takedowns on free fanfictions never stopped. It's just many IP holders started incorporating fanfics/parodies as part of their advertisement strategies and started enforcing often unspoken guidelines. There is now a ecosystem or a mental co-dependence between IP holders and creators, and both sides are fine with it. So there be fan contents. But free fan contents were never "legalized" in the content world, as some seem to assume.