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Comment on Happy Birthday Belongs To You and Me?: A possible copyfraud in action? by Child’s Play?: The impact of copyright on children « The Learned Fangirl

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:51:10 +0000

[...] and hence part of the life experience for the vast majority of English-speaking children, is either copyrighted or no one has been capable of taking on its corporate overlord to prove its public domain status. Henry Jenkins has written [...]

Comment on Child’s Play?: The impact of copyright on children by Rebecca Tushnet

Rebecca Tushnet — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:53:38 +0000

Tarleton Gillespie has a great paper about copyright education and children, which I blogged a bit about here: http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2008/05/sts-and-ip-copyright-education-and.html

Comment on Lexicon of Love?: Why the Harry Potter Lexicon lawsuit isn’t only about derivative works and fair use by Child’s Play?: The impact of copyright on children « The Learned Fangirl

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:04:08 +0000

[...] Sara Grimes writes about the Harry Potter lawsuit differently than I’ve seen before (or the economic production /fan labor issues that I’ve written about) by focusing on how traditional intellectual property analysis [...]

Comment on What we talk about when we talk about fandom: Visibility and Invisibility: The Fans by r

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:47:50 +0000

I love the way this comment breaks down why women and girls like me were drawn to X-men — and then moved away from it:

X-Men’s climb to prominence was in part because Chris Claremont… wrote women characters the same way other writers had always written men — they were allowed to be incredibly powerful, they were allowed to be leaders, they were allowed to have relationships with one another, they were allowed to have lives and angst that had nothing to do with men. And women ate it up, increasing X-Men’s market share by leaps and bounds that hadn’t been seen for *any* superhero property since Superman and Batman first came out. (Identifying a new audience that’s 100% of the size of your current audience, and marketing to them as well while not losing your original audience, will do that for you.) The 90’s did its best to erase Claremont’s influence by making Rogue less a terrorist trying to reform and more a sad untouchable damsel, forgetting Storm was the most badass superhero ever, and making Jean Grey practically a housewife, but trust me, this is not because *women* don’t understand or enjoy superheroes.
Salon comment here

Comment on “Passionate fandom” applies only to generally male-dominated fandom? Or, why is slash squicky, yet “mylar bag” fandom not? by What we talk about when we talk about fandom: Visibility and Invisibility: The Fans « The Learned Fangirl

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:04:13 +0000

[...] Why should she feel the need to defend her fannishness? Is it because she doesn’t fit the stereotype of who a fan should be — by being an African-American [...]

Comment on An update on locked-up / “owned” government information: In Honor of National Library Week by r

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:16:48 +0000

On June 26, 2008, Public Resource.org has reported the release of scanned legislative history materials, including 10 DVDs of materials, containing 619,481 PDF files by the Government Accountability Office.

In response Public Resource.org, has “proposed an unsolicited joint venture which would allow the GAO to ship to us the same materials they shipped to Thomson West. The cost to the GAO would be minimal, and this valuable resource would see the light of day!”

Comment on Doraemon, Japanese official ambassador for anime by Hello, Ambassador Kitty: Hello Kitty, Japanese official ambassador for tourism « The Learned Fangirl

Tue, 20 May 2008 03:07:15 +0000

[...] the appointment of Doraemon as the Japanese official ambassador for anime, Hello Kitty has been appointed the Japanese official ambassador for tourism to China and Hong Kong [...]

Comment on “Social Networks and the Good Society” presented at Northwestern University by Cass Sunstein, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Eszter Hargittai by r

Sun, 18 May 2008 22:58:36 +0000

To John Wilkin: Thanks for the comment. I was trying to summarize a quoted quote in a lecture, like an academic game of telephone. Considering the number of steps away from your own words I apologize for *all* of my inaccuracies!

Comment on “Social Networks and the Good Society” presented at Northwestern University by Cass Sunstein, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Eszter Hargittai by John Wilkin

John Wilkin — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:19:02 +0000

“He quotes John Wilkin of University of Michigan libraries, as saying that kids today are only interested in looking at digital books….” Naw, I don’t think I’ve ever made such a statement. I’m not even sure how I’d come to a conclusion like that. I don’t do much in the realm of digital natives or even “kids today” despite having a couple Thanks, though.

Comment on Who Gets to Write Fandom History? by Response to Who Gets to Write Fandom History? « The Learned Fangirl

Response to Who Gets to Write Fandom History? « The Learned Fangirl — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:17:10 +0000

[...] Who Gets to Write Fandom History? Posted on 6 May 2008 by r As you describe in your post, Who Gets to Write Fandom History?, understanding how fandoms are created and evolve is complicated. I think that is even more reason [...]