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This Week in Fandom, Volume 142
This Week in Fandom: the role of fanworks in a time of crisis, the new season of Killing Eve, and more: otw.news/twif-142
This Week in Fandom: the role of fanworks in a time of crisis, the new season of Killing Eve, and more: otw.news/twif-142
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This Week In Fandom, Volume 139
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OTW Guest Post: Briony
Briony has been vidding for years, but there are still a lot of areas she hasn't crossed into. In this month's OTW Guest Post she gives us some great details about her vidding process. Read more at https://otw.news/guest-post-33710
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This Week in Fandom, Volume 7
Legal debates over Star Trek fan film Axanar, a new study on fair use guidelines in Australia & VividCon scholarships http://bit.ly/1pYsc77
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otw-staff.livejournal.com2016-05-03 12:37 pmThis Week in Fandom, Volume 7
Legal debates over Star Trek fan film Axanar, a new study on fair use guidelines in Australia & VividCon scholarships http://bit.ly/1pYsc77
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Guest Post: Fresca
Blogger & vidder Fresca talks old school fandom, fanworks as inspiration & why editing Wikipedia is important http://bit.ly/1W3SEsv
otw-staff.livejournal.com2016-04-15 11:26 amEntry tags:
Guest Post: Fresca
Blogger & vidder Fresca talks old school fandom, fanworks as inspiration & why editing Wikipedia is important http://bit.ly/1W3SEsv
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Guest Post: Ash48
In today’s OTW Guest post, vidder Ash48 discusses how she got into fandom & vidding and what inspires her http://bit.ly/1LjsYAe
otw-staff.livejournal.com2016-02-11 12:07 pmEntry tags:
Guest Post: Ash48
In today’s OTW Guest post, vidder Ash48 discusses how she got into fandom & vidding and what inspires her http://bit.ly/1LjsYAe
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Guest Post: Earlgreytea68
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.com2016-01-27 09:35 amEntry tags:
Guest Post: Earlgreytea68
In 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?
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-staff.livejournal.com2015-11-19 11:54 amOTW Fannews: What's in a Name?
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
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OTW Fannews: Becoming the Norm
The Google Book case is important for fans, and so is the new viral video ruling. Find out why: http://bit.ly/1MmmLUD
otw-staff.livejournal.com2015-11-10 09:38 amEntry tags:
OTW Fannews: Becoming the Norm
The Google Book case is important for fans, and so is the new viral video ruling. Find out why: http://bit.ly/1MmmLUD
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OTW Fannews: Doing Your Part
otw-staff.livejournal.com2015-05-12 02:22 pmEntry tags:
OTW Fannews: Doing Your Part
Net Neutrality & celebrity memes are under threat plus OTW needs your stories regarding BluRay use! http://bit.ly/1zY7w3P
otw-staff.livejournal.com2015-04-24 09:59 amEntry tags:
Introducing your new site mod
It’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.com2009-01-04 02:53 pmEntry tags:
Is YouTube Blocking Your Vids? Exercise Your Right To Fair Use!
We'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.