Francesca Coppa

They'll learn.

I mean, this isn't like a, you know, I don't know, a mean girls club where it's like, don't come and play.

Like, come and play.

Like, every fan wants more people to come and, you know, and play.

Yeah, you kind of have to play a little bit by our rules, but they're nice rules.

They're rules that prize human connection and giving and, you know, participation and not, like, the commodification of your friends.

Like, these are not bad rules to learn.

You know, that's a, you know, a lot of it depends on what happens with the law.

I mean, if they change the laws on intellectual property, I don't see them doing that anytime soon.

In fact, if anything, they seem to be wanting to tighten laws.

the laws around intellectual property in what I think of are bad ways.

I think they're bad for culture, right?

The longer things stay in copyright, the less imaginatively engaged other people can be with them.

And I think that's bad for culture, not just about fan fiction, but broadly speaking.

It would have been terrible if Shakespeare had to negotiate with Netflix for the right to Hamlet and then didn't get it.

That's the world we live in.

Right.

We're like Netflix owns Hamlet.

It has a five year option.

Shakespeare really has a great idea for it.