Hey! :) I've come across your posts about this subject, and have found them really informative and helpful. Thanks for putting the information out there for us non-legal types! I had a thought on this bit, actually...
"Because as someone wrote: how is calling Jensen functionally illiterate any more libelous than telling the world he likes to be buttfucked by Jared?"
I don't think it's any more libelous, but the primary difference I'm seeing between RPS and Jensenvention is that Jensenvention (as I understand it) planned an awareness campaign... flyers, postcards, basically taking this out into the real world and seeking out people who weren't already familiar with the actor. The campaign leads back to the site, which is part of PETJA. (And I guess, to a lesser extent, posting videos sans disclaimer on YouTube could fit into this as well.)
So, I could see where Jensen's people wouldn't care about fic, not only because it's in a clearly-recognized format associated with fiction, and therefore less likely to be taken seriously, but more importantly, because it's not being systematically and intentionally disseminated among non-fans. There's no proselytizing of the buttfucking message, as it were. So, I'd think Jensenvention would be more alarming to his people than fic... hence why they've never cared about fic up to this point, but went after Jensenvention shortly before the "vention" part was going to take off. It's possible that if people staged a similar publicity campaign about the buttfucking, his people would go after that as well.
I don't know if that's a reasonable assumption to make, but it's struck me over the last couple days that this would be the concern for me, if I were his representation.
Re: Please don't eat the kittens
"Because as someone wrote: how is calling Jensen functionally illiterate any more libelous than telling the world he likes to be buttfucked by Jared?"
I don't think it's any more libelous, but the primary difference I'm seeing between RPS and Jensenvention is that Jensenvention (as I understand it) planned an awareness campaign... flyers, postcards, basically taking this out into the real world and seeking out people who weren't already familiar with the actor. The campaign leads back to the site, which is part of PETJA. (And I guess, to a lesser extent, posting videos sans disclaimer on YouTube could fit into this as well.)
So, I could see where Jensen's people wouldn't care about fic, not only because it's in a clearly-recognized format associated with fiction, and therefore less likely to be taken seriously, but more importantly, because it's not being systematically and intentionally disseminated among non-fans. There's no proselytizing of the buttfucking message, as it were. So, I'd think Jensenvention would be more alarming to his people than fic... hence why they've never cared about fic up to this point, but went after Jensenvention shortly before the "vention" part was going to take off. It's possible that if people staged a similar publicity campaign about the buttfucking, his people would go after that as well.
I don't know if that's a reasonable assumption to make, but it's struck me over the last couple days that this would be the concern for me, if I were his representation.