Alright, a thread on the relationship between artists with power and their fans. This is regarding the JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS issue, but I'll bring in the stuff I've written about.

As a result of this thread from @Memles, I learned about how an artist created JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS fan art, put it on shirts through RedBubble, and then an actor and a wife did something not great. https://twitter.com/Memles/status/1310083496778620928

Fan art has been around for centuries and is a way fans show their love of something. It only seems reasonable there would be fan art for a show that has been out for 18 days on Netflix. Everything can find an audience.

As @Memles pointed out in the thread, the conversation between Shada's wife and the original artist is, "Hey, I made my own version, you're sooooo amazing. Can I make shirts? I'll give you a credit!"

And as someone who studies fans and the law, this feels bad.

Now I'm going to contrast that to the McElroys. The McElroys generally like fan art, but they are generally opposed to fan-made merch. The biggest opposition is to stuff on RedBubble/TeePublic/TeeSpring, although fans take a more blanket opposition than the hosts do.

(For more on this issue, see my paper, "You Must Roll 18 or Higher for Your Claims to Succeed: Common Law Trademarks, Unauthorized Merchandise, and the Podcast 'The Adventure Zone'" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3684935)