David Revoy announces that he is updating his licensing to explicitly prohibit AI-generated derivatives of all his art, lore, stories, and comics. He defines AI derivations as images or texts where AI substantially generates or replaces the creative development, including fan fiction, prequels, game graphics, or comics produced with AI. Longstanding Creative Commons choices for Pepper&Carrot (CC BY) and MiniFantasyTheater (CC BY-SA) lack an option to forbid AI derivation, and after receiving multiple daily requests and examples of AI-reshaped work, he’s creating a clear “AI derivation prohibited” statement to accompany his CC notices and plans to backport it across past works.
Enforcement will rely on asserting his European moral rights and mobilizing his audience to report infringing AI creations; some cases will be easy to remove, others may require legal action. He clarifies important nuances: he will tolerate using software that accepted AI code contributions (e.g., KDE, Debian/Ubuntu) and AI-assisted grammar, proofreading, or translation tools, but not AI that produces content or replaces the artistic process. He already applied a “NO AI” contribution policy to repositories in March 2026 and expects the new license tag to reduce opportunistic machine-generated low-effort derivatives.
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