You placed this conversation in a public setting, so as of then, it ceased to be just between your two parties.
If your original post was not rude, then this comment certainly is. No one said you did not have the right to defend your intellectual property. We just don't like the way you're choosing to do it. As the person above said, a quick private message would have sufficed. And part of the reason we don't understand your position is because of the amount of misinterpretation involved on your end.
Nobody is claiming to own your work. Nobody is trying to profit monetarily off of it. Fan activities like this one amounts to children playing with dolls. Would it be good etiquette for the makers of GI Joe to tell children "you and your friends can't make up stories for these characters while playing with their action figures because these are my creative property"? Roleplay is play and the stories we make up around these characters we use for it are ultimately just fun stories not meant to infringe on a creator's "legal entities and intellectual properties."
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If your original post was not rude, then this comment certainly is. No one said you did not have the right to defend your intellectual property. We just don't like the way you're choosing to do it. As the person above said, a quick private message would have sufficed. And part of the reason we don't understand your position is because of the amount of misinterpretation involved on your end.
Nobody is claiming to own your work. Nobody is trying to profit monetarily off of it. Fan activities like this one amounts to children playing with dolls. Would it be good etiquette for the makers of GI Joe to tell children "you and your friends can't make up stories for these characters while playing with their action figures because these are my creative property"? Roleplay is play and the stories we make up around these characters we use for it are ultimately just fun stories not meant to infringe on a creator's "legal entities and intellectual properties."