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OTW Fannews: Commercial Weirdness
Language English A post at Wired featured images from a new book on science fiction zines of the 1940s through 1960s. "Despite being produced with a limited tool set, and existing in a vastly different...
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OTW Fannews: Shark & Ranger Takedowns
Language English Bloomberg BNA was one of many sites to write about a dispute over a Power Rangers fan film created by professional director Joseph Kahn. It was taken down from Vimeo in response to a...
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OTW Fannews: Fanficcers for Hire
Language English Westword featured a story on another app targeted to fandom for content aggregation. It allows users to create separate collections, or 'nests', for different fandom content. Its...
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OTW Fannews: Product Placement
Language English Vulture released a series of articles on fanfiction, including an attempt to unravel "My Immortal", and a look at some published authors discussing fanfiction activities. "[T]he...
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OTW Fannews: For the Benjamins
Language English PC Gamer discussed a Half-Life fan's job offer after releasing a popular mod."Transmissions: Element 120 is a "short single-player" Half-life 2 mod that equips players with a new kind...
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OTW Fannews: Giving Some Credit
Language English A post at Polygon disagreed with fans' protests about game mods being sold on Steam. "Over and over, it’s been shown that when great content is rewarded with cash, better content flows...
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OTW Fannews: Fandom Entrepreneurs
Language English A post at Digital Book World discussed lessons publishers should learn as the eBook market matures. For one, they should "[a]cquire readers, not just authors. Editors already know to...
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OTW Fannews: Balance of Power
Language English Gamasutra hosted a post about the preservation of gaming history."The second event – the most relevant and sadly the one that got less coverage – was that EFF made a petition to the...
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OTW Fannews: Fannish Reading
Language English The Bookseller reported on Scribd's changes to its business model due to romance readers. "Coming in the context of Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select's controversial new...
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OTW Fannews: OTW Sightings
Language English Members of OTW's Legal Committee have proposed panels for next year's South By Southwest (SXSW) conference on fair use and fandom. They are asking for fans to support the inclusion of...
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OTW Fannews: Commercial Opportunities
Language English Airlock Alpha posted Ann Morris' discussion of What Mainstreaming Of Fandom Has Done For Me. Namedropping the OTW's Fanlore, she notes that tech advances have helped her follow her...
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OTW Fannews: Becoming the Norm
Language English Variety gave the entertainment industry a heads up on a critical fair use ruling in a case involving viral videos. Fair use is the key copyright provision protecting fanworks in the...
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OTW Fannews: What's in a Name?
Language English The New Statesman weighed in on an important discussion as fanworks become more well known: what actually counts as one? "It comes down, as it often does, to money. Because money, and...
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OTW Fannews: From Sacred to Commercial
Language English Places like Refinery29 are noticing the importance of what fans do. "Urrata, who is studying English lit, film, and women's studies, sees femslash (the fan-art romantic pairing of...
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OTW Fannews: Coming Attractions
Language English Both the Wall Street Journal and The Global Timeswrote about China's approach to fanworks and intellectual property. The Journal reported on Alibaba Pictures' plans to "no longer hire...
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