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OTW Fannews: Storytelling platforms
Taal Engels While sites like Wattpad have already demonstrated a large, international reach among young fanfic writers, other companies keep trying to capture that market. The Observer wrote about...
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OTW Fannews: Fandom milestones
Taal Engels On March 1, Three Patch Podcast released an episode with Development & Membership Chair, Kristen Murphy, as a guest. They discussed the formation of the OTW and the AO3's million...
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OTW Fannews: Writers of all stripes
Taal Engels Author Robert Jackson Bennett wrote about how to define fans and how that related to his role as a content creator. "I happened to meet a much more established writer than me...I brought up...
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OTW Legal Files Amicus Brief in Garcia v. Google
Taal Engels In our continuing effort to protect against online censorship that would harm fans, last week, the OTW filed an amicus brief in the case of Garcia v. Google. The case involves the scope and...
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OTW Fannews: Tech and legal developments
Taal Engels The New York Times Bits blog was one of several places highlighting the work of OTW legal staffer Casey Fiesler, who examined Terms of Service at popular websites. Among them was...
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OTW Fannews: Shining a Light
Taal Engels 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: Remembering the past
Taal Engels At The Atlantic, Courtney Klauser discussed her education in social networks thanks to fandom. "Looking back, I most miss the personal anonymity; an online existence without photography or...
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OTW Fannews: Fandom Enabled
Taal Engels At Aeon Michelle Nijhuis discusses genderswapping with her daughter. "When I first wrote about my daughter’s Hobbit genderswap, many people said that fanfiction writers were way ahead of...
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OTW Fannews: Terms in Use
Taal Engels As fandom has become more visible, the terms it uses have spread out into new areas. At this point various bands have written songs titled "Fan fiction" and Australian musician Geoffrey...
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Taal Engels The Wall Street Journal wrote about different fandom activities on different social media platforms. "[T]he CW is trying just about everything in social media. Interestingly, once its fans...
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OTW Fannews: Learning from Fanfic
Taal Engels Technology Tell looked at what fanfiction told them about character popularity in Dragon Age. "The proof is in the sorting. I started my search over at An Archive of Our Own. It has a...
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OTW Fannews: Book Fandom End to End
Taal Engels At The New Statesman, Elizabeth Minkel discussed book fandoms and the importance of small presses. "The fan who gets hired to make the thing he’s obsessed with has its own TV Trope: 'the...
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OTW Fannews: Commercial Exploits
Taal Engels Many fans of Fall Out Boy launched a petition to protest a proposed event by podcaster Jensen Karp which would revolve around reading "the most ridiculous REAL fanfiction about them on the...
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OTW Fannews: Fandom Advice
Taal Engels One fanfiction reader turned writer based on his wife's advice as reported by Houma Today. "Nearly 15 years ago, Caldwell discovered online discussion boards and began reading fan...
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OTW Fannews: Fanficcers for Hire
Taal Engels 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 creator...
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OTW Fannews: Balance of Power
Taal Engels 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 U.S....
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OTW Guest Post: Donna Davies
Taal Engels From time to time, the OTW will be hosting guest posts on our OTW News accounts. These guests will be providing an outside perspective on the OTW or aspects of fandom where our projects may...
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OTW Joins Save The Link
Taal Engels The OTW is proud to join the Save The Link campaign. The campaign, led by Open Media International, stands for the proposition that linking is the foundation of the Web and is essential to...
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Happy SysAdmin Day!
Taal Engels In honour of this year's SysAdmin Day, the OTW would like to salute system administrators everywhere for their hard work! We'd especially like to thank our own staff for the work they do to...
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OTW Fannews: Staying Vigilant
Taal Engels The Japan News posted a story about how a Trans-Pacific Partnership crackdown could affect fanfiction publishing. "[T]he 12 nations engaged in the TPP negotiations are building a consensus...
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