Games Workshop has recently announced their new zero-tolerance policy on fan animations, removing the protection fan creators previously enjoyed. While many fan creators have been lucky enough to receive official employment from the company, supported by their Warhammer+ streaming service, others have been issued with cease and desist orders, and others still, who should be protected by Fair-Use or Parody laws, have become too scared to continue their works, worried that those rules will be rescinded themselves, or simply won't be enough to protect them, and are not willing to become part of the Warhammer+ service as they worry their vision does not mesh with Games Workshop's vision for the Warhammer Universe. 

This petition requests that Games Workshop rescinds their zero-tolerance policy on fan animations. This will be beneficial not only for the community, allowing fans to enjoy a more diverse array of Warhammer content, but will be beneficial to Games Workshop, as fan animations are not only free advertising for their brand, which would not exist if the animations were locked behind Warhammer+'s paywall, but content creators who are making content based on GW IPs aren't working on their own original content which could become a rival to GW's content, and the fan animations continuing could serve increasingly as a potential recruitment pool for GW's expanding roster of in-house animators. 

In short: fan animations are important for the community and the company, and allowing them to continue will garner far more good faith for the company than making fans too afraid to demonstrate their love for the brand.