Thread:ChishioKunrin/@comment-4504913-20161013033021/@comment-25936766-20161013234959

Lucas Koch wrote:

When I'm done, I will send my work to Rooster Teeth to let them do what they wish with it. I would recommend that you, once you're finished writing and reviewing the book, did that first of all. Because otherwise, RT could at any time claim copyright and take it down from the internet.

The reason: There's a misunderstanding about copyright law. It's seen as being concerned with someone taking credit for someone else's work, period.

Actual copyright law is concerned with potential loss of revenue to the copyright holder due to the fact that some use of their material is not generating revenue for them. Even if you don't charge for your product, RT can argue that they could have written RWBY in book version, and then charged people for it if your free version wasn't there, so you've still damaged them monetarily.

In other words, even if you put a disclaimer that you don't own RWBY, that RT owns RWBY, and all that....they can still claim copyright. In fact, putting up a disclaimer could be worse, because then you're saying you know it's copyrighted, thus it becomes "Willfull infringement", which is worse than the standard infringement.

Which is why, again, you should, once finished, send it to RT first of all. In fact, you should try to ask RT before doing anything. Not just because of ^^, but also because what if they say they don't want a book version of RWBY, for whatever reason? All that sweat and time would be wasted.