By Sam Fleming “Everything is about sex except sex: sex is about power” – Oscar Wilde. When Random House signed E. L. James to a…
Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee’s prequel/retelling of to To Kill A Mockingbird is considered highly controversial, in part because of the way some readers…
by Raizel Liebler I am so pleased to say that my chapter, Copyright and ownership of fan created works: fanfiction and beyond, has been published…
by Raizel Liebler At a time where no one was looking, Judge Ruben Castillo has issued an order in the case of Klinger v. Conan…
by Keidra Chaney The publication of Textual Poachers in 1992 opened the door of acceptance for an academic study of fan communities and transformative works,…
by Vivian Obarski Dear Geek girls and Geek women — First off, I’m coming from a place of love. Don’t get me wrong. But we…
by Vivian Obarski and Keidra Chaney This an older conversation that I just recently resurfaced. If you have never read fanfiction in your life and…
Until recently, Clay Shirky was best known as the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The book was widely praised…
After a truly great time presenting about fan culture two years ago at MIT5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age, we presented at…
Uh-oh. According to Mashable, LiveJournal, of blogging’s old warhorses, is in some big financial trouble: The company has reportedly laid off 20 of 28 employees,…