User:Adrianvallence/PoP

This is a class project for Project for Politics of Piracy, Spring 2013

(warning: this is a work in progress and thus am uninterprable giant mess)

Organization for Transformative Works page revision ideas:

Sources: http://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/EFF%20PK%20OTW%20Amicus%20in%20Fox%20v%20Dish-1.pdf (and other legal briefs)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/apple-time-warner-super-bowl-intellectual-property.html http://www.dailydot.com/news/organization-transformative-works-fandom-future/ (and similar news articles)

Ao3 stats: http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts?tag=62 Alexa stats: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/archiveofourown.org

papers: http://dc.uwm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=etd http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15405700903502346 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cj/summary/v048/48.4.de-kosnik.html

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The Organization For Transformative Works (OTW) is a non-profit organization that advocates for the transformative and legitimate nature of fan labor activities, including fan fiction, fan vids, anime music videos, and real person fiction. It is an organization advocating for the legality of fan works, and its primary focus is protecting fan fiction, fan art, fan videos, and other transformative works from legal snafus and commercial exploitation.

(something about fans in fandoms)

History

 * A series of short documentaries on vidding, in combination with participatory culture academic Henry Jenkins and the New Media Literacies project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Legal Activism
The OTW also provides Legal assistance to the fandom community, addressing the legal issues with fan fiction and other fan works. The OTW has submitted several amicus briefs to the courts in cases involving intellectual property law:
 * In Salinger vs. Colting, the OTW argued for broader interpretations of fair use, and that the court should not bar derivative works from publication without stricter consideration.
 * In Fox vs. Dish, the OTW argued in defense of digital recording methods used by Dish Network, claiming that "The popular fanwork genre of noncommercial videos (“vids”) uses clips from television shows or film, reworking them in a way that comments on or critiques the original. The Copyright Office has held that substantial numbers of vids constitute fair uses. But the creation of fan vids requires intermediate digital copying and processing in order to produce the transformative final product. OTW thus believes that intermediate copying performed to facilitate fair use constitutes fair use."
 * (summary of electronic arts case)

In 2008, the OTW (in coordination with the Electronic Frontier Foundation) successfully submitted proposals for further exceptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to allow the fair use of video clips for certain noncommercial uses such as video remixes, commentary, and education, as well as to protect technology used for such purposes. The exceptions were also successfully renewed in 2012.

Transformative Works and Cultures Journal

 * A peer-reviewed academic journal for scholarship on fanworks and practices ("Transformative Works and Cultures")

Archive of Our Own
Created by the OTW, the Archive of Our Own is an open-source, non-commercial, non-profit archive for fan fiction and other transformative fanac. The Archive is built and run almost entirely by volunteers, many without previous coding experience. The Archive was publicly launched into Open Beta on 14 November 2009, and has been growing steadily since.

Fandom Archival Projects
The OTW has also instituted several projects for preserving fan history and culture. One such project was the creation of the Fanlore wiki, A wiki for preserving fandom oral history. The Fanlore wiki was first revealed in beta in 2008, with a full release in December 2010.

The OTW also has several "Open Doors" projects dedicated to the preservation of fannish historical artifacts. These projects include The Fan Culture Preservation Project, a joint venture between the OTW and the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa to archive and preserve fanzines and other non-digital forms of fan culture, and The Geocities Rescue Project, which attempts to preserve content originally hosted on Yahoo's Geocities by transferring that content to new locations on the Archive of Our Own or within the Fanlore wiki. Other miscellaneous artifacts and collections are stored on the OTW's main servers in the Special Collections gallery.

Feedback

 * Adrian, this looks absolutely great. Good use of link to other Wiki pages, citations, external links, and even using categories...after you flesh out the sections, I say go ahead and get the page out there and you can make more edits further down the road. More info on creating the page itself can be done through Article_wizard.  Another good thing to do is maybe make some subsections, or at least mention OTW on other pages, providing the link for this page.  Great job, and just let me know if you have any questions.

-Angelica Atavel (talk) 16:54, 12 April 2013 (UTC)