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'Coming Through the Rye': Lawsuit Over 'Catcher In The Rye' Sequel
Tags: Intellectual Property, DiscussionFanfiction writers and other makers of transformative works might be interested in the lawsuit brought by the famously reclusive J.D. Salinger and his lawyers against writer J.D. California, who has written a sequel to "Catcher in the Rye" called "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye," which tells the story of Holden Caufield as an old man. Unlike fanfiction, "Coming Through The Rye" is a commercial work, but it'll still be an interesting case to keep an eye on. Read more about the case at CNN, with a more thorough legal overview courtesy of the Wall Street Journal.
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TWC Editor Karen Hellekson Talks About Research Ethics on fandomresearch.org
Tags: Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, Media MentionsKaren Hellekson, co-editor of Transformative Works and Cultures, has a guest post on Fandom Research, a new blog which aims to be "a clearing-house for surveys, questionnaires, theses, dissertations, and other research pertinent to the active field of fandom studies." Karen's post is called, "Fandom research methods," and deals not only with academic standards like those of university or college institutional review boards (IRB) or The Association of Internet Researchers but also about fannish community standards for personal privacy: when its appropriate to quote, whether a LiveJournal or blog post is "public" or not, etc. Aca-fans and other fandom researchers and fanthropologists should check out both the post and this site.
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New Feature! Archive news post #1 - The basics
Tags: Archive of Our Own, Archive UpdateHello from AD&T!
Since the OTW began, we've been working away busily on creating the Archive of Our Own, buoyed up by tons of support from fandom. Now that we've been working on it a while, we know that people have questions. So from now on we'll be running a twice-monthly news post specifically about the Archive, answering some frequently asked questions. We'll answer a handful of questions each post, to keep it manageable for us and you.
Please leave your questions about the Archive in comments and we'll answer them in upcoming posts. (This is a space for more general questions - if you have specific comments about the design or usability of the Archive please send feedback on the Archive site itself (so it goes into our bugfix and design process).
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Roundup for Vidders
Tags: Conferences, Announcement, Takedowns, YouTube, ViddingA few items of interest to vidders:
1) As many vidders have noted, iMeem is no longer supporting embeds, and YouTube continues its policy of random takedowns. (Remember that you can dispute a takedown if you believe your vid is a fair use!) A lot of vidders are therefore looking at other streaming services. Markus Weiland did a good comparison of the terms of service of many of the competing sites (including Blip, Dailymotion, Kyte, Vimeo, and others) in his article Owned? Legal terms of video hosting services compared. Worth a look if you're thinking about a new home for your vids.
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A Shout Out To OTW's "Groundbreaking" Open Source Project from the O'Reilly Radar
Tags: Archive of Our Own, Open Source , Women in Technology, Media MentionsThe OTW gratefully acknowledges this shout out from Nat Torkington of the O'Reilly Radar. We agree that's something unfortunate about the "macho meritocracy" of conventional programming. OTW: a few small commits from our coders, a giant leap for female coders everywhere!
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May, 2009 Newsletter, Vol 29
Tags: NewsletterJoin us in celebrating our unofficial 2 year anniversary: our first "fanarchive" LJ post went live on May 20, 2007. WOOT! Find out what your favorite OTW projects and committees are doing: more info right below the cut!
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AD&T has been researching co-location facilities and getting quotes on hardware, which is starting to look excitingly detailed. These are the first steps towards actually buying and owning our own servers! We have also started working on the features we'll need to go to Open Beta!
We're currently hard at work on a bunch of projects:
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Attention Vidders and Other Fannish Remix Artists
Tags: Announcement, Vidding, Remix, OTW Sightings, Resources for FansAmerican University’s Center for Social Media and AU's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, in collaboration with Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project, have launched a new video explaining how online video creators can make remixes, mashups, and other common online video genres with the knowledge that they are staying within copyright law.
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United We Stand: Glockgal's Avatar Zazzle Site Restored
Tags: Activism, DMCA, Takedowns, Legal Advocacy, DiscussionThe OTW belatedly joins in celebrating the restoration of Glockgal's Avatar site on Zazzle. As you may remember, Glockgal's store was TOSed ostensibly for violating Viacom's intellectual property rights, even though Glockgal's items were mostly textual expressions of her critique of the all-white casting of the new live-action Avatar film. Viacom was quick to assert that they support fair use and only take things down when they aren't creative or political; they also invited Glockgal to submit a DMCA counternotice.
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Archive of Our Own: Collections and Challenges. It's Design Time! Please Help!
Tags: Archive of Our Own, DiscussionGreetings and Salutations! Calling all challenge mods, archivists, and people with vivid fannish imaginations! If you've run a fannish challenge or exchange, moderated a challenge community, edited a zine, or put together a themed rec list, we want to talk to you. If you've participated in a fannish challenge and/or have ever thought in detail about how to run a challenge, please also help us out! We're in the process of developing the design for two essential pieces of functionality on the Archive of Our Own Roadmap, Version 0.7: Collections and Challenges.
As part of that design work we need to know how it's going to be used and understand what different people want from it.
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OTW Represents Vidders And Other Remix Artists at DMCA Anticircumvention Hearings
Tags: DMCA, Announcement, Intellectual Property, Legal Advocacy, Vidding, Remix, Fan Videos, Legal CommitteeOTW board members Rebecca Tushnet (chair of Legal) and Francesca Coppa (chair of Communications and Vidding History) and TWC review editor Tisha Turk went down to Washington DC on May 7, 2009 to testify at the DMCA Hearings on Noncommercial Remix. Rule 1201 of Copyright Law prevents the circumvention of copyright protection systems (e.g. makes it illegal to rip DVDs or to hack your cellphone) but also requires the copyright office to hold hearings every three years to find out of this prohibition is adversely affecting anyone.
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