No one owns a genre, least of all Omegaverse
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| Title: | No one owns a genre, least of all Omegaverse |
| Creator: | Zoey Ellis |
| Date(s): | October 20, 2018 |
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| Topic: | Omegaverse Litigation |
| External Links: | No one owns a genre, least of all Omegaverse - ZOEY ELLIS, Archived version |
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No one owns a genre, least of all Omegaverse is a 2018 blog post by Zoey Ellis.
Some Topics Discussed
- Cease and Desist letters
- Alpha/Beta/Omega
- fanfiction tropes
- the book chapter by Kristina Busse from Anne Jamison's Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World: On Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse
- an essay link collection on omegaverse (archive link) by Kristina Busse
Excerpts
In April 2018, an author and her publisher filed take-down notices against my Myth of Omega books, causing them to be removed from sale at various retailers. These deliberately harmful actions against my work violated the Copyright Act because they made inaccurate and misleading claims of plagiarism. This accusation not only misrepresented the events in my work, but also asserted that that author was the creator and owner of common tropes found in m/f, m/m, and f/f Omegaverse as well as dark romance. After these claims were found unsupported, my books were reinstated; however, this process took a significant amount of time for some retailers. During this period, a title that wasn’t even published yet—that no one could have read—was also targeted, and preorders were lost when the book was removed from presale.
What’s important to realize is that all versions of Omegaverse began in fanfiction as early as 2010 and any claim otherwise dismisses the work of thousands of writers who helped to hone and define it as a distinct sub-genre. The author in question heavily borrowed from this existing universe to create her own work—she has no authority to gatekeep the genre, she was not the first to write any version of it, and she cannot claim to own copyright for any of its recognized concepts such as alphas being big or omegas being rare and resisting their heats. The court process will have the final say on this outrageous conduct to stifle other authors.