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Guest Post: Earlgreytea68
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In today's guest post, earlgreytea68 muses about what fanworks are and why it's important they be celebrated. http://bit.ly/1KFweFQ
otw-staff.livejournal.comIn today's guest post, earlgreytea68 muses about what fanworks are and why it's important they be celebrated. http://bit.ly/1KFweFQ
OTW Fannews: What's in a Name?
Nov. 19th, 2015 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The New Statesman weighed in on an important discussion as fanworks become more well known: what actually counts as one? "It comes down, as it often does, to money. Because money, and a lack of it, is at the heart of long-held tensions about fanworks. Fanfiction is overwhelmingly the product of unpaid labour, millions and millions of words given freely, whether for legal reasons or community norms.
Because it isn’t compensated – and because it is so often done by women it is devalued, as an art form and as a way to spend one’s time. When money is added to the mix, whether in giant pull-to-publish book deals or, increasingly, fanfiction contests and authors sponsored by television networks and Hollywood studios, the place that fanworks occupy in the vast sphere of adaptation and reworking begins to shift. And not always for the better."
What are fanworks? For many that’s becoming a difficult question to answer as fanworks and fandoms get co-opted: http://bit.ly/1QwCkz0
OTW Fannews: What's in a Name?
Nov. 19th, 2015 11:54 amotw-staff.livejournal.com
The New Statesman weighed in on an important discussion as fanworks become more well known: what actually counts as one? "It comes down, as it often does, to money. Because money, and a lack of it, is at the heart of long-held tensions about fanworks. Fanfiction is overwhelmingly the product of unpaid labour, millions and millions of words given freely, whether for legal reasons or community norms.
Because it isn’t compensated – and because it is so often done by women it is devalued, as an art form and as a way to spend one’s time. When money is added to the mix, whether in giant pull-to-publish book deals or, increasingly, fanfiction contests and authors sponsored by television networks and Hollywood studios, the place that fanworks occupy in the vast sphere of adaptation and reworking begins to shift. And not always for the better."
What are fanworks? For many that’s becoming a difficult question to answer as fanworks and fandoms get co-opted: http://bit.ly/1QwCkz0
OTW Fannews: Becoming the Norm
Nov. 10th, 2015 09:40 amotw_staff
The Google Book case is important for fans, and so is the new viral video ruling. Find out why: http://bit.ly/1MmmLUD
OTW Fannews: Becoming the Norm
Nov. 10th, 2015 09:38 amotw-staff.livejournal.com
The Google Book case is important for fans, and so is the new viral video ruling. Find out why: http://bit.ly/1MmmLUD
OTW Fannews: Doing Your Part
May. 12th, 2015 02:24 pmotw_staff
OTW Fannews: Doing Your Part
May. 12th, 2015 02:22 pmotw-staff.livejournal.comNet Neutrality & celebrity memes are under threat plus OTW needs your stories regarding BluRay use! http://bit.ly/1zY7w3P
Introducing your new site mod
Apr. 24th, 2015 09:59 amotw-staff.livejournal.comIt’s celebratory, and instructive. It motivates some and comforts others. It sparks imagination, excites, confounds and infuriates – sometimes all in one breath.
It’s fandom – and we want to talk about it with you here on LiveJournal in a way we hope will support and encourage your fan art journey.
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It’s fandom – and we want to talk about it with you here on LiveJournal in a way we hope will support and encourage your fan art journey.
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francescacoppa.livejournal.comWe've heard from a number of people that YouTube has recently blocked a number of fanvids due to alleged music rights violations. But YouTube also provides a mechanism for vidders to assert their right to fair use: a quick and easy dispute process.
YouTube recognizes that there are legitimate artistic and critical reasons to use copyrighted material, and the online form gives, as a potential reason for dispute: "This video uses copyrighted material in a manner that does not require approval of the copyright holder. It is a fair use under copyright law." The form also asks you to explain further.
Fair use is a muscle: it gets stronger when you exercise it, so if you believe that your vid is fair use, that it transforms copyrighted material for a new critical or creative purpose, you should dispute the claim.
Here are some resources you might consult to explain why your vid is fair use:
1) The Best Practices in User-Generated Content released by the American University Center for Social Media. (Their main site on fair use is here.)
2) The EFF's Test Suite of Fair Use Examples for Service Providers and Content Owners; the test suite features a vid.
3) The Q&A with Fan Vidder Luminosity in New York Magazine.
4) Michael Wesch's Anthropological Introduction to YouTube presented to the Library of Congress on June 23, 2008 (features Lim's vid "Us" among other videos).
5) Other academic and legal articles about vidding include:
Remixing Television: Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground. Reason Magazine, August/September 2008
Francesca Coppa, Women, Star Trek, and the Development of Fannish Vidding in Transformative Works and Cultures (2008)
Henry Jenkins, How to Watch a Fan Vid (2006)
Sarah Trombley, Visions and Revisions: Fanvids and Fair Use (.pdf), 25 Cardozo Arts & Ent. J. 647 (2008)
Rebecca Tushnet, User-Generated Discontent: Transformation in Practice (.pdf), 31 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 110 (2008)
6) And don't forget Fanlore: one stop shopping for trying to explain to people what fannish things mean!
This post is mirrored from an original post on the OTW blog.
YouTube recognizes that there are legitimate artistic and critical reasons to use copyrighted material, and the online form gives, as a potential reason for dispute: "This video uses copyrighted material in a manner that does not require approval of the copyright holder. It is a fair use under copyright law." The form also asks you to explain further.
Fair use is a muscle: it gets stronger when you exercise it, so if you believe that your vid is fair use, that it transforms copyrighted material for a new critical or creative purpose, you should dispute the claim.
Here are some resources you might consult to explain why your vid is fair use:
1) The Best Practices in User-Generated Content released by the American University Center for Social Media. (Their main site on fair use is here.)
2) The EFF's Test Suite of Fair Use Examples for Service Providers and Content Owners; the test suite features a vid.
3) The Q&A with Fan Vidder Luminosity in New York Magazine.
4) Michael Wesch's Anthropological Introduction to YouTube presented to the Library of Congress on June 23, 2008 (features Lim's vid "Us" among other videos).
5) Other academic and legal articles about vidding include:
Remixing Television: Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground. Reason Magazine, August/September 2008
Francesca Coppa, Women, Star Trek, and the Development of Fannish Vidding in Transformative Works and Cultures (2008)
Henry Jenkins, How to Watch a Fan Vid (2006)
Sarah Trombley, Visions and Revisions: Fanvids and Fair Use (.pdf), 25 Cardozo Arts & Ent. J. 647 (2008)
Rebecca Tushnet, User-Generated Discontent: Transformation in Practice (.pdf), 31 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 110 (2008)
6) And don't forget Fanlore: one stop shopping for trying to explain to people what fannish things mean!
This post is mirrored from an original post on the OTW blog.
