Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-28736340-20160301145637/@comment-4715955-20160613084543

Caramelll the Dream Catcher wrote: I want to ask another stupid question... If you write a creepypasta about a popular video game, then whose property will it be?

Let us assume you write a pasta about a modded GTA game, can the game company sue you, as you based your story on their game? It would be fan fiction, which is a derivative work, which is the property of the original rights holder. I have three Doom novellas hosted on my site, full of original content, but all three books are legally the property of Id Software because it's based on their work.

Money has nothing to do with anything: as I said, if you base your work off of mine, and I don't approve, I can have it taken down whether or not you're doing it for profit. The reason most fanfics are allowed on the net isn't because they're published for free, it's because the rights holders either don't know about it, or don't care (hey, free advertising! Sort of!). Never assume that it's okay just because you aren't charging for it. Copyright law is civil law, not federal, so in most cases you're only prosecuted if the rights holders feel like it.