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 Keidra Chaney “The Space Between” is a sporadically occurring TLF series of interviews that I do with fans that live in that space between…
Earlier in the summer, Amazon launched Kindle Worlds, a platform for fanfiction writers to publish and make money from their works. It launched to skepticism…
By Keidra Chaney Few fandoms are as collaborative and interactive as anime fandom. While it is perfectly acceptable to simply watch an anime series, there…
It’s November; ’tis the season of month-long marathon creative endeavors, such as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) For NaNoWriMo, participants aim to complete an original…
The New York Times recently had an article on LOLcats, specifically the ICanHasCheezburger site, and I wondered, what took so long? Is it because it…
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…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEpj9w1yz64] On this blog, we write often about the value of fan-created works, about how fans use their creativity, using works created and owned by…