User blog comment:Valyriefaery/Fan art law/@comment-26992952-20150913033258/@comment-68.32.116.146-20150913062911

From what I read some people have started a petition, the article I read said that about 350 people had signed it. To put that in perspective in middle school there was a petition for something involving saving the rainforest going around the middle school, I think they got 1000 signatures from students and parents,so 350 is tiny. My fourth grade had bake sales and carwashes and actually bought an acre of rainforest, there were other classes doing this all across the country, I'm not sure that buying the land actually stopped any deforestation, but it was probably more proactive than a petition.

Also what are they going to do with the petition? Send it to their congress critters? I'm pretty cynical about politics. If there's no money in it politicians arn't going to follow up about it. I just don't think you need to worry about all of anime fandom being legislated against. The people in the U.S. who sell anime and manga would get their customers to sign counter petitions and write their congress critters.

Your fears about fan art being made illegal seem more likely, fan fiction is pretty much already illegal in the U.S. but is usually only prosecuted if the fan fiction writer tries to make money off of their stories. If the fan fiction writer changes the character names and the setting then it's all fine, like '50 shades of gray (twilight fanfiction)'.

So if their is a counter petition to sign, or a specific bill to write my congress critters about not passing let me know. :)