Tag Archives: fanworks

Comments on section 512 from the OTW and a few others

Posted on April 8, 2016 by rtushnet

The Copyright Office has posted the responses to its notice of inquiry on 512.  Here’s the Organization for Transformative Works comment on 512.  Also, among the 90,000+ responses, there are comments from Eric Goldman, and a comment based on the … Continue reading →

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Organization for Transformative Works fundraising drive

Posted on April 7, 2016 by rtushnet

Organization for Transformative Works membership drive: of possible interest to law-types in particular, we submitted over 100,000 words on 3 continents in 2015 in support of transformative noncommercial use.  (Wow.)  Please support the OTW with a donation! from Blogger http://ift.tt/1qvKCwS

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comments on 512 from the Organization for Transformative Works

Posted on April 1, 2016 by rtushnet

Available here.  I look forward to participating in the Copyright Office’s roundtable as well.  from Blogger http://ift.tt/25AEJig

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Copyright Office notice of inquiry on 1201

Posted on March 4, 2016 by rtushnet

Comments I’ve seen so far: Organization for Transformative Works comment (of which I am very proud!) Public Knowledge New America’s Open Technology Institute New Media Rights Joint Libertarian Comments (R Street, FreedomWorks, and Niskanen Institute) International Documentary Association Consumers Union … Continue reading →

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Reading list: Feminist values in the Archive of Our Own

Posted on February 10, 2016 by rtushnet

Casey Fiesler et al. have written An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design (CHI 2016), a paper about feminist principles and human-computer interaction in the Archive of Our Own.  As a noncommercial … Continue reading →

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USPTO white paper on remix, first sale, and statutory damages

Posted on January 28, 2016 by rtushnet

Here.  No love for an exception for noncommercial user-generated content (Canada’s YouTube exception), but at least some support for the viability and importance of fair use, including discussion of the OTW’s contributions.  What is a bit aggravating is the apparent … Continue reading →

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Reading list: commercializing fanworks in the US and Japan

Posted on December 3, 2015 by rtushnet

Nele Noppe, Mechanisms of control in online fanwork sales: A comparison of Kindle Worlds and Dlsite.com, 12 Participations 218, 231 (2015) (citations and footnote omitted):   This research also suggests that while the establishment of Kindle Worlds may have been … Continue reading →

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DMCA exemption followup

Posted on June 30, 2015 by rtushnet

The OTW/EFF response to the Copyright Office’s additional questions, filed yesterday, is now available.  Of note, the Copyright Office asked us about the extent to which K-12 students and teachers were covered by the existing noncommercial exemption. from Blogger http://ift.tt/1RPqZq8

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DMCA hearings: remix

Posted on May 28, 2015 by rtushnet

Copyright Office: Jacqueline Charlesworth Michelle Choe Regan Smith Cy Donnelly Steve Ruhe John Riley Stacy Cheney (NTIA)   Note that my recap does not reflect all Qs because I was participating.   Proposed Class 7: Audiovisual works – derivative uses … Continue reading →

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New book chapter on young women and transformative works

Posted on May 28, 2015 by rtushnet

Busy week, part N: I have a new chapter, Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use, with Betsy Rosenblatt in a book edited by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves from U Ottawa Press, eGirls, eCitizens, available as … Continue reading →

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