Rebecca Tushnet’s latest article on fan-created works and fair use

Check out Rebecca Tushnet, User-Generated Discontent: Transformation in Practice, 31 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 110 (2008). [translation: it's in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts]
She argues that the non-commercial nature of fan works makes them transformative, an important element in determining whether a use of a copyrighted work [...]