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Join the OTW at LonCon or Nine Worlds
Список тегов: Announcement, Fan Conventions, Development & Membership Committee
The OTW has an opportunity to participate in two upcoming fandom-friendly conventions in the UK: Nine Worlds (Aug. 8-10) and LonCon 3, home of this year's WorldCon (Aug. 14-18). We are looking to do meetups for members, fans, and supporters of the OTW and its projects. Depending on the number of members we have in attendance, we may also have the possibility of staffing promotional tables and/or doing workshops or small Q&As for attendees.
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OTW Fannews: Uncomfortable Topics
Список тегов: Gender and Sexuality, News of Note, Fan Conventions, Fannish Communities, Fannish Histories
At Buzzfeed, Alison Vingiano wrote about the history of trigger warnings. "By the early 2000s, the term had found its way to LiveJournal, where it was used on fan fiction. Gaby Dunn, a writer and early adopter of Tumblr and LiveJournal, said when she was using LiveJournal around 2001, fan fiction communities warned one another of explicit content but seldom used the phrase that has been adopted today. 'When we’d write fan fiction on LiveJournal, we might say, ‘This includes a rape storyline,’ or something, but that phrase [‘trigger warning’] was never used.'"
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OTW Fannews: Fandom Legal Topics
Список тегов: Business Models, News of Note, Commercialization of Fans, Intellectual Property, Movies, Music
The Age reported on a lawsuit involving the founders of The Writers Coffee Shop. "The lawsuit asks the court to recognise that TWCS is an ongoing partnership and, as a partner, Pedroza is entitled to 25 per cent of the profits. Pedroza and Beebe are seeking...'to trap funds not yet paid by Random House'" as a result of their rights purchase for Fifty Shades of Grey. The plaintiffs claim that Amanda "Hayward, 'fraudulently' restructured TWCS under the guise of tax minimisation, without the knowledge of the partners, so payments from the Random House deal, signed in March 2012, flowed exclusively to herself."
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OTW Fannews: Fanfiction in the lexicon
Список тегов: News of Note, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality, Studies, Fanfiction , Fannish Practices
Gamescene hosted a paper on Fanfiction as Critical Play. "By allowing the larger fan community to access and interact with the fanfiction, the piece contributes to the larger agency of the fans over the source universe. This allows for more fans to participate in the remolding of a fiction that they did not create, examining societal, cultural, political, and personal themes through both the inherently subversive act of writing fanfiction, and through the content and themes contained within the individual fanfiction. The fanfiction writer employs concepts such as unplaying, reskinning, and rewriting in order to acknowledge and further explore the subversive elements of their version of the source. This makes fanfiction a form of critical play."
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OTW Board to Hold Public Meetings
Список тегов: OTW Board, Announcement
As mentioned in the May newsletter, the OTW board would like to announce two recent decisions that we hope will help with accessibility and transparency of our work, and bring more opportunities for both our staff and volunteers, as well as the public, to communicate with us.
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May 2014 Newsletter, Volume 80
Список тегов: Newsletter, OTW Sections
I. ALL BUSY ON THE LEGAL FRONT
In May, Legal continued their advocacy work with a couple of larger scale projects. First, they filed a Notice of Protest with the U.S. Trademark Office against a registrant seeking trademark rights in the term “FANDOM.” They also continued our participation in the USPTO/NTIA “Green Paper” process regarding U.S. copyright law, this time participating in a multi-stakeholder meeting regarding standardization of DMCA “notice and takedown” procedures. Legal Chair Betsy Rosenblatt presented at that meeting, and the OTW has a seat on the Working Group that emerged from it.
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OTW Fannews: Fannish Histories
Список тегов: Gender and Sexuality, News of Note, Fanart, Movies, Music, Television, Fannish Histories
- The New York Daily News was one of several media outlets reviewing a book about Bob Dylan fans. "These anecdotes are juicy enough and artfully told, but they don’t get at the heart of what makes Dylan fandom different from other kinds of fandom. The Beatles, the Ramones, Neil Young and Madonna, just to name a few, have all inspired similar obsessions. Hyperactive tape trading, for one, certainly isn’t unique to Dylan fans. Just ask any Deadhead. It’s only when Kinney turns to the Dylanologists that have devoted their lives to ferreting out the meanings behind Dylan’s music and art — rather than collecting his grandmother’s candy bowls — does he get at what makes Dylan so singularly attractive, and infuriating."
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OTW Fannews: The fandom business
Список тегов: Business Models, News of Note, Commercialization of Fans, Fan Conventions, Commercial Works Authors
Fan conventions range from small to large, fan-run to commercial, but increasingly conventions are big business. ICv2 wrote about data from the online ticketing platform Eventbrite. They found "sustained year-over-year growth of 20% or more since 2007...But what’s most interesting is that the dollars generated by cons...[are] in some cases, triple digit revenue increases from 2011-2012 and 2012-2013." Also interesting is that while "[o]ver half of fandom events on Eventbrite between 2011 and 2013 are categorized as gaming events...anime and comic events drove 70% of gross ticket sales."
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Franzeska Dickson resigns from OTW Board
Список тегов: OTW Board, AnnouncementAfter almost two years as a Director, we are sorry to announce that Franzeska Dickson will be stepping down from Board service. She is leaving due to personal issues, and while we hate to see her go, we’re pleased she’s taking care of herself and putting her needs first.
We realize the number of directors is very low right now, and the Board will be holding an internal meeting in June to discuss related topics with staff and volunteers. These will include plans for this year’s elections, the possibility of appointments, and what people would like to see happen with the Board. The Board will have updates on this once the meeting has been held and they have had time to synthesize the ideas from OTW staff and volunteers.
In the meantime, the OTW would like to take this opportunity to thank Franzi again for her work as Director and for her dedicated service to the organization.
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Events Calendar June 2014
Список тегов: Anime and Manga, Conferences, Call for Papers, Fan Conventions, Event, Fanfiction , Fannish Communities, Television, Academia
Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of June! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can be viewed by event-type, such as Academic Events, Fan Gatherings, Legal Events, OTW Events, or Technology Events taking place around the world.
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