OTW Fannews: Academic takes on fandom
Dil English New York City's Museum of the Moving Image is hosting a presentation on vidding given by former board member Francesca Coppa, titled "Remix Before YouTube." The presentation is on Friday,...
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OTW Fannews: Fan conventions
Dil English SB Nation published a somewhat bemused summary of a day at MLB Fanfest but concluded that "The Real Baseball Thing has something to do with the act of playing baseball and something to do...
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Events Calendar for October 2013
Dil English Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of October! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can be...
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OTW Fannews: Playfulness and IP
Dil English The University of Buffalo hosted a lecture by intellectual property scholar Madhavi Sunder titled Learning by Doing. Sunder says. “'Copyright owners have tolerated much fan activity on the...
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OTW Fannews: Doing more with fanworks
Dil English Blogger Priya Sridhar suggested that fanfiction can be used to analyze canon. "'Hitchups' first addresses one of the pressing issues in [How To Train Your Dragon]: female character...
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OTW Fannews: Copyright threats and benefits
Dil English The Asahi Shimbum detailed fan concerns about the TPP. "Usami and other creators of fan fiction, however, could face the possibility of legal prosecution as copyright violators in the...
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OTW Fannews: Fans taking the reins
Dil English Den of Geek wrote about fans stepping in to create more content. "As Star Wars fandom continued, fans became content creators too...Pablo Hidalgo wrote and illustrated Star Wars tabletops...
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Events Calendar for May 2014
Dil English Welcome to our Events Calendar roundup for the month of May! The Events Calendar can be found on the OTW website and is open to submissions by anyone with news of an event. These can be...
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TWC's Top 10
Dil English One of the OTW's projects is Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), an open-access academic journal dedicated to fandom and fandom studies.But don't think that just because it's a...
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OTW Fannews: Fan activism
Dil English Indiewire hosted a post about a petition to the MTV Awards. The "Heroes" category overlooked an obvious candidate. "[I]t's still noteworthy that among MTV's 16 categories, the only other...
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OTW Fannews: Shining a Light
Dil English OTW Fan Video & Multimedia Committee Chair Tisha Turk gave an interview on "the past, present and potential future of vidding and remix culture, and the murky status of fair use – at...
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OTW Fannews: Fans Getting Informed
Dil English When Amazon launched Kindle Worlds, OTW Legal offered advice to fans about its terms. Now, the OTW's ally organization, New Media Rights, has also examined the pros and cons of its...
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OTW files amicus brief in Capitol Records vs Vimeo
Dil English Together with a number of allies, OTW's Legal Committee filed an amicus brief Wednesday in the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Capitol Records v. Vimeo. The case began...
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OTW Fannews: Spotting Fanworks
Dil English Business 2 Community featured fan video work in a recent post and looked at some stats. "In the past 30 days, Doctor Who has garnered 7.9 million views on YouTube with 355 videos uploaded...
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Calling all fan video makers! Tell us about your work!
Dil English The OTW's Fan Video & Multimedia Committee and Legal Committee are once again working to petition for a DMCA exemption granting vidders, AMV makers, and other creators of noncommercial...
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إعلان شهر ديسمبر التشويقي لليوم العالمي لأعمال المُعجبين
Dil Arabic اليوم العالمي لأعمال المُعجبين سيتم عقده في ١٥ فبراير، ٢٠١٥! OTW (منظمة الأعمال التحويلية) تعمل على خطط للإحتفال، و لكننا نريد أن نعرف ماذا ستفعل أنت!ما هو اليوم العالمي لأعمال المُعجبين؟هو...
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Teaser de desembre del Dia Internacional de les Obres de Fans
Dil Catalan El Dia Internacional de les Obres de Fans tindrà lloc el 15 de febrer de 2015! L’OTW (Organització per a les Obres Transformatives) està fent plans per celebrar-ho, però també volem saber...
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国际同人作品日 — 12 月预告
Dil Chinese, Simplified International Fanworks Day（国际同人作品日）将在 2015 年 2 月 15 日举行！OTW（OTW...
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Internationale Fanwerkendag December teaser
Dil Dutch Internationale Fanwerkendag zal plaatsvinden op 15 februari 2015! De OTW (Organisatie voor Transformatieve Werken) is plannen aan het maken om dit te vieren, maar we willen ook weten wat jij...
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Joulukuinen kurkkaus kansainväliseen faniteosten päivään
Dil Finnish Kansainvälinen faniteosten päivä järjestetään 15. helmikuuta 2015! OTW (Transformatiivisten teosten järjestö) suunnittelee juhlia kovaa vauhtia, mutta haluamme myös tietää, mitä sinä aiot...
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