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OTW Fannews: Storytelling platforms
Tags: News of Note, Tumblr, Fanfiction , Music, Technology
While sites like Wattpad have already demonstrated a large, international reach among young fanfic writers, other companies keep trying to capture that market.
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Chat transcript for "The Future of Fanworks" academic panel
Tags: Event, Academia, Fannish Practices
On March 8th the OTW held a chat with several fan studies scholars. If you missed it, here's the chat transcript! This has been edited for arrivals and departures in the room and introductions among the audience.
Visit our post about "The Future of Fanworks" discussions if you'd be interested in future events.
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Join us for our chat with fan studies authors!
Tags: Event, Academia, Fannish Practices
Tomorrow the OTW will be holding the first of its four March events discussing "The Future of Fanworks." This will be a live chat with fan studies scholars from 1600-1800 UTC (What time is that in my timezone?)
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OTW Fannews: Fanwork transitions
Tags: Business Models, News of Note, Books, Fanfiction , Fannish Communities, Television
Even while fanfic writer Bianca Bernardino is seeing her work turned into film, another author is turning to fanfic of her own work. As L.J. Smith explained last year, "[E]ven though I have written the entire series, I don’t own anything about The Vampire Diaries. And from now on, the books will be written by an anonymous ghostwriter, just as Stefan’s Diaries are. It will say 'Created by L. J. Smith' on the cover, but I am not allowed even to change a word in the ghostwriter’s book." Instead, Smith has released the first of a series through Amazon's Kindle Worlds.
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February 2014 Newsletter, Volume 77
Tags: Newsletter, OTW Sections
I. MILESTONE-PALOOZA
February was a month with major milestones from three OTW projects. Fanlore passed 500,000 edits, the AO3 passed 1 million fanworks, and our Journal Committee editors produced The Fan Fiction Studies Reader.
To continue the celebrations in March, Communications has lined up a series of discussions on "The Future of Fanworks" with academic, fan, legal, and entertainment industry guests. And to continue the focus on fanworks through coming years, they announced an International Fanworks Day to be held annually on February 15th.
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OTW Legal Submits Comments to European Commission
Tags: Spotlight, Intellectual Property, Legal Advocacy, Legal Committee
In January, the OTW posted about efforts in the European Union to influence copyright reform. In addition to encouraging fans to make their voices heard, OTW's Legal Committee also began preparing comments.
Our Legal Committee has registered the OTW in the European Union's Transparency Register and has now filed a submission to the European Commission in response to its call for comments concerning possible EU copyright reform.
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OTW Fannews: Marketing to women
Tags: Business Models, Gender and Sexuality, News of Note, Commercialization of Fans, Gaming, Fanfiction , Television, Entertainment Industries, Fannish Practices
There have been discussions in the media over past months that suggest that a significant reason for the erasure of women in fandom is that companies have no interest in marketing to them. This was made explicit in an article on io9 which discussed the fear of TV network executives that their cartoons had too many female fans.
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Events Calendar for March 2014
Tags: Conferences, Studies, Call for Papers, Event, Fannish Communities, Fannish Histories, Academia, Fandoms, Fannish Practices
Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of March! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website-
- To celebrate the OTW's Milestone Month we are hosting four events featuring a discussion on "The Future of Fanworks" with a variety of special guests.
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- March 8: Live chat with fan studies scholars on "The future of fanworks" from 1600-1800 UTC
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- March 15: Live chat with fans on "The future of fanworks" from 0200 - 0400 UTC
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- March 21-24: Q&A posts with copyright practitioners and scholars on "The future of fan works."
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- March 29: Live chat with entertainment industry representatives on "The future of fan works". Start time TBD
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OTW Fannews: Restricting fandom
Tags: Business Models, News of Note, Studies, Gaming, Intellectual Property, Entertainment Industries, OTW Sightings
OTW legal staffer Casey Fiesler has written a paper on “Remixers’ Understandings of Fair Use Online" which found that fans' understanding of fair use is often incorrect. “What the community typically believes and does can actually affect what is judged legal,” says Amy Bruckman, professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and researcher on the study. “So it’s in their interests to have cohesion to craft codes of best practice.”
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OTW Fannews: Cross-border fandoms
Tags: Anime and Manga, News of Note, Fanfiction , Music, Fanfilms, Television
The Manila Standard Today featured some articles on fanfiction, dubbing them "The other side of the fandom." The features explain types of fanfic and their locations online, concluding "Writers are not paid when they write fanfics. They all do it for the fandom, for their readers, and for themselves. Thus for consolation, reading the comments of their reader, knowing someone appreciates their work and waits patiently for the new chapter are enough for them to keep on writing."
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