Links and Comments collection post

[ciderpress.livejournal.com]

This has been an exciting and interesting week for the Organisation for Transformative Works. Thank you for all your interest! We have been avidly following the comments, links and discussions in and arising from last week’s posts.

While we may not be able to reply to each comment, please be assured that we are reading each comment and suggestion and following the discussions in various fannish and non-fannish forums.

We would love to hear from you if you read or hear of further discussion about OTW and related subjects that you think are of interest to us and other fans.

To make contacting us a bit easier, as well as e-mailing us, you can also comment to this post to leave us links, thoughts, ideas and questions of all shapes and sizes! This post is also linked in the sidebar as "Links & comments collection post" for your convenience.

Our del.icio.us account:

http://del.icio.us/otw_news

is also being updated with interesting fannish and non-fannish articles and discussions as we find them. Please come and browse our del.icio.us if you are interested.

If you have a delicious account, you can share links with us by tagging them for:otw_news and we’ll receive them.

We link to open posts and articles but if we have linked to your journal or blog and you do not wished to be linked, please drop us a line at comrel@transformativeworks.org and we’ll remove it.

Thank you!

-- femmequixotic, bethbethbeth, ciderpress, mirabile_dictu, shrift, svmadelyn
Community Relations Committee

Comments

Re: Possibly very dumb question

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your question about what transformative work actually is, and especially as it relates to the OTW's mission. There should have been a quick acknowledgement that we'd received it back when you posted this, and I apologise that you were left hanging.

Your question is #1 on a list of frequently asked questions which is currently being discussed. An answer should be posted in the next week or so -- Community Relations is working on a big FAQ which will answer many such issues raised by fandom.

As I said in our discussion on your LJ, the ToS will focus on the nitty gritty of what is allowed in the Archive, and what is covered by our legal mission; the ToS documents will be open for public consultation before being officially adopted.

In short, our projects are designed to support each other, so our main legal focus (at least to begin with) will be on protecting the kinds of transformative works hosted in the Archive, whether they are actually hosted there or not. We do want to help fans who are not hosting with us and who are doing other transformative works.

To start with the Archive will accept fanfic, and probably icons and other small works of transformative art. The plan is to branch out from there, and include meta, larger fan art pieces, songvids, etc. Beyond that, the scope may well grow as the Organisation grows, but it's too early to do more than speculate.

Re: Possibly very dumb question

[alias_sqbr]

A week? Cool! I await with bated breath :) (Also if anyone's reading this and curious, here's the post she's talking about)