The Learned Fangirl

Chuck Norris has decided that others making money from the Chuck Norris meme is unacceptable to a man who roundhouse-kicks cows into making butter. His means to shut down these money-making cowards/fans? Not another Mountain Dew ad or a Mike Huckabee endorsement spot, but in a recently-filed lawsuit. Once Justia and PACER have the docket, [...]

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Wired Magazine and MTV have made it official via Boing Boing: the music industry as we know it is dead. And considering that almost all music listeners are thieves, the death knell is not a moment too soon.
And how do we know the music industry is dead?:
1. As Cory Doctorow puts it on BoingBoing, copying [...]

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Somehow I haven’t yet posted about The Organization for Transformative Works, a new non-profit
established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. We believe that fanworks are transformative and that transformative works are legitimate.
As shown by the first [...]

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Unfortunately, I can’t make it to every great conference held at MIT by the cutting-edge Comparative Media Studies program (run by the godfather of fan studies, Henry Jenkins, “Sir Convergence Culture”). Hopefully, we’ll be presenting at Media in Transition 6 because participating in Media in Transition 5 was so great!
I highly recommend the following discussion [...]

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Honestly, the recording industry is doing a great job of making itself irrelevant.
From Ars Technica:
After several years of litigation and nearly 30,000 lawsuits, making a copy of a CD you bought for your own personal usage is still a concept that the recording industry is apparently uncomfortable with. During the Jammie Thomas trial this [...]

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