There's a bill making its way around Congress that could very make fan art and fan fiction illegal. Such an act inhibits the First Amendment, and only serves a few fat cats who stand to get richer from this bill, all the while hurting artists, musicians and writers. Download this image, add your name, and submit it as a deviation. Most importantly, SPREAD THE WORD, and let's stop this bill in it's tracks!
Read the bill here.
I thank a Deviant Art Watcher for this.

also sorry for not being active enough.
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