Have you heard????

ff oo

According to Reddit, it’s an author in Oklahoma suing another author for using ABO/Omegaverse claiming to have “invented” it.

Sooo I just wanna know how they’re going to explain ABO to the judge(s) and jury

I might have to go to court because I wrote an ABO story on Wattpad in my younger days. I’ll see y’all in court!

I invented the reply section, see yall at court

What ABO??

alpha beta omega?

After further research, it’s scary because the hanakai disease, “cocky” the word, “fairy dust” the words, and “happy birthday” the song are all copyrighted

What will happen to Tadaima, Renmant, and my favorite omega verse in Japan?!

Can you explain what are those? Thank you

It’s most prevalent in yaoi mangas. I’m not good at summarizing (¥401, or anyone, please correct me if I’m wrong) but it’s basically...

ABO/Omegaverse is an alternate universe where there are males and females that are also alpha, beta, or omega.
Alpha goes into rut although they’re at the top of the social (and biological) hierarchy.
Beta is normal.
Omega goes into heat (periodically) and is at the very bottom of social (and biological) hierarchy.

The dynamic of ABO tropes is that there is this “one destined soul mate” and the alpha must mark the omega on the nape (in some stories, this stops the heats, in others, it just shows possession). Beta again is normal (some stories play really well with the beta dynamics).

If you need further explanation, feel free to ask, or pick up a omegaverse manga. Because the stories will explain it better than simply word vomiting.

Oh (smh, how can I forget), male omegas can get pregnant.

Link? :0c

Thank you very much again...that's a lot of explanation , sorry to bother you hehehehe

No problem I skipped so much information since it was getting so long. (〜￣△￣)〜

I found this on Reddit but I'm having difficulty following it because of my dyslexia but as far as my experience I don't see how there can be a court case but I'm not a lawyer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/comments/b0ttrr/going_around_on_twitter_an_abo_plagiarism_lawsuit/

I have been reading the omegaverse manga since they came out but it was a natural transition for me from Male pregnancy manga.

But when the first omegaverse manga came out it was mentioned in a few of the introduction sections that the first use of the term omegaverse was in a werewolf fanfiction from the west. At the time I tried to find the fanfiction to give it a read but the closest I could get was to a blog talking about it (if I remember correctly it gave the title and original bloggers name, but I can't remember what they were and have not been able to find the post since). Needless to say I couldn't find the fanfiction so can't really comment on about what was in it.

Most of the early omegaverse give reference to this as to where the term omegavers came from but each has then gone on to define their own setup for their omegaverse, that's why you have to read how the author has set up each particular omegaverse, but this is no different than how the Male pregnancy genre operated before omegaverse was introduced. Only exceptions I found were the works released in the omegaverse project, this is where different authors released works under the same omegaverse rules.

But as far as I'm aware the only original thing that the fanfiction author came up with was the term omegaverse used as an overarching classification for the alpha/beta/omega classification (which is a scientific classification theory, so author did not invent this) (also further research from the original scientist has debunked the original theory but it is still used today in fiction and pop science).

All the other things heats, knotting, scent marking, mated pairs and bite markings all come from scientific observations of wolves and various other canine species and some cat species. These have been used in a lot of supernatural works but in particular werewolf and lycanthrope or ones involving shape shifters. As far as I am aware these have been used in works for 20 or more years of science fiction and horror books. I was originally introduced to these concepts in works by Anne Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton. Stephanie Myers works popularised them.

Male pregnancy is a trope that has been used for years in manga years before omegaverse has been used. Some even used scents, heats and class (ie social class systems) before omegaverse. Some even used alpha/omega terminology but not omegaverse.

From what I do know about copyright law, that in western countries once a work has been published the author is protected under copyright. There's currently debates about copyright of online works (and what consists of as being published and self publishing rules). As early blog platforms either had no copyright statements or the statements had the authors waive their copyright to post.

Now it is advisable for authors to choose a platform that allows authors to retain their copyright, and also declaring what type of copyright they want when first publishing, this can be done by deciding what type of license they want to use and announce it either at the top or bottom of the works. (Some people might have noticed a creative commons or cc being used, this gives other users permission to use the work).