Fanhackers: Amazon announces publishing platform for licensed fanfic thirtypercent: rivkat: fanhackers: I’m curious about whether, for instance, this licensing agreement with Amazon would permit a fic writer to still offer her story for free on another fic archive.: Read More
Amazon Worlds: Not bigger on the inside
Amazon Worlds: Not bigger on the inside rivkat: These five questions strike me as just the right ones (not that I have answers): Question 1: To what degree does Kindle Worlds suggest that the fanfiction can only be legitimized through
fuck yeah copyright law: It’s Kindle Worlds, we’re just living in it?
fuck yeah copyright law: It’s Kindle Worlds, we’re just living in it? heidi8: rivkat: fyeahcopyright: Amazon is working with WB to publish (read: sell) fanfiction from the Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and Vampire Diaries ‘verses. And they said that
Amazon announces publishing platform for licensed fanfic
PaidContent reports that in June this year, Amazon will be launching Kindle Worlds, a legal publishing platform for fanfic. According to Amazon’s announcement, Kindle Worlds will start out by allowing fanfic based on Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The
[META] Fan Art Law at Comic-Con (by deviantart)
Fan Art Law at Comic-Con (by deviantart) From a review of the video by Boing Boing: Here’s an hour-long presentation on copyright law and fan art from San Diego ComicCon 2012, presented by a lawyer from DeviantArt who once worked
[QUOTE] From Heidi Tandy paraphrased by Rebecca Tushnet, Penn symposium: fan fiction
Fan creativity is as old as storytelling. Distribution is a lot wider these days, though. If you want a live singalong of Once More with Feeling you may need to inquire about rights. (…) Legal concepts of transformativeness have broadened
[QUOTE] From Rebecca Tushnet, Economies of Desire: Fair Use and Marketplace Assumptions
Creativity, including remix creativity, is part of a good life. It should be valued for itself, not tolerated. Creativity should be a favorite of the law even if we do not need to worry about incentives or disincentives (chilling effects).
[LINK] Glossary of copyright-related legal terms
cyber.law.harvard.edu/cx/Glossary Designed to accompany CopyrightX, a free online course on copyright for non-lawyers. Useful for everyone.
[META] 32 fic writers arrested in China in 2011, and we missed it
Reading Reflection on Chinese boys’ love fans: An insider’s view by Erika Junhui Yi in the latest issue of TWC, I was struck not just by how extreme reactions to BL can get, but also how little info sometimes gets
[QUOTE] From From Casey Fiesler, Everything I Need To Know I Learned from Fandom: How Existing Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of User-Generated Content, p738-739
The question of whether or not fan fiction could be considered fair use has never been addressed by the courts, but some legal scholars have suggested that it should be a categorical exception. While the public generally believes that a