User blog comment:The Soul Fister/Creepy Pasta Con?/@comment-25148755-20180304143628/@comment-25148755-20180304150230

A couple other issues I could see.

First is the almost total lack of copyright law affecting Creepypastas. Let’s take Jeff the Killer. You’ve got Sesseur who came up with the original picture, video and name. Killer Jeff who pretended to be the character, the unknown author of the original origin pasta and then banning with 2015. If I have a booth with Jeff the killer on T-shirt’s, whose permission do I need to have that be “licensed?” And if it isn’t licensed, how do we ensure credibility. Things like Bannings Tobit, my own Wicker Saga...stuff that one author clearly created and no one else really works on would be easier but those don’t tend to encompass the most popular characters. The only super popular writer with some of the most widely read pastas is in my mind Slimebeast but, from the limited interaction I’ve had with him, my impression is he would not be on board for a convention.

That brings me to the second issue: creepypasta is a huge community but there are a ton of factions. You’ve got the various narrators of course, of which there are literally hundreds if only a dozen or two big names and even fewer what I’d consider “elite”. The community here (which is frankly rather small if you’re just considering regular users/commenters). And then no sleep which is, sneakily I think, perhaps the largest and most pervasive in terms of where the original content is coming from. All are unique, and don’t necessarily have all the crossover.