While true, that in itself doesn't complicate the legal situation. You only get that sort of complication in cases where someone permits fanfiction under X rules, and then try and change the rules. In fact soliciting fanfiction which is only permitted to be posted in specified locations is a way of avoiding that sort of complication.
A perfect example is Ludkowsky asking for people to vote HPMoR for the Hugo or try and convince Rowling to make it an official work.
What? Did he really try to do that? Why?
Yes, he did. As for why... consider who it is.
If they solicit it and publish it in an anthology, it ceases to be "fanfiction," but instead becomes a commissioned work (also known as "work-for-hire"), and the copyright laws are ... clearer, there, to my understanding. The setting remains the author's, and the particular derivative work is the original author's property, not something the guest author can claim as a source to spin off his own independent works in the same universe.
This is getting very off topic, but if there's a contract for X to write in the setting created by Y who owns what becomes dependent on what the exact wording of the contract is. It can range from the setting creator owning everything including the copyright for the work you wrote through all sorts of variations to the new author getting full rights to the setting.
I thought she made herself one of those right before Halloween, right after Sunny made her virtually wallpaper the Shrine in ofuda.
And now I'm seeing Taylor swinging a sword the size of a snowplow that goes HONK! whenever she hits something.
She did. We see it during the Merchant attack.
Easy way to check if it's an actual update instead of chaff if you're not subscribed is to click the "word count" under the thread title and see if there's been any newly added threadmarks.
Actually have it open in Reader Mode in another window doing just that.
There's a difference?
Exactly what Dragon planned I suppose. Did she take scheming lessons from Contessa or Ziz?
Sunny is actually playing with them, just no one questions it because a dog doesn't play table top RPGs. She is playing as Sir Bearington, Knight of the Realm.
