And have been all along, really, as far as copyright is concerned. Except for those of us who’ve never made or downloaded a fan edit or fan preservation. The “own the source rule” doesn’t make any of this legal, it’s just an ethical standard, and something that sites like this and fanedit.org can point to if the owners of the copyrights decide to start getting shitty about what we do.

But that part of it has never been truly tested anyway, and it’s even murkier now under the new bill.