Category talk:Copyright Glossary

I like the category idea but I'm not sure "copyright" is the correct label for it. While a lot of these concepts relate to copyright, some don't - many of the permissions statements are more about community standards than legality, and "recursive fandom" is very much about fandom-as-community and what's considered canon vs fanon, rather than copyright status or whether something is legally transformative.

I think this is a useful collection of pages with a consistent theme, but I'd like us to find a different name for it. --Elf (talk) 16:23, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

I feel that some of the points you've raised aren't unique to this category. The "glossary" category itself has an imprecise name (many articles go well beyond simply defining terms) and serves as something of a storage bin for stuff that doesn't readily fit elsewhere. I'd argue that the chief motivation for permission statements isn't community standards but the legal considerations involved in unauthorized reproduction. Recursive fics are a form of derivative/transformative work, and thus, from a purely legal standpoint, many or even all the same considerations apply. Both articles involve copyright/intellectual property to some degree and thus may be of interest to those seeking information on the legal dimension of fanworks. But it might be helpful to have a category like Category:Fanwork Sharing to accomodate social/community-based perspectives on reposting fics etc.? Night Rain (talk) 18:11, 15 September 2023 (UTC)