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: Joe Gratz

Fandom?s nonprofit: the Organization for Transformative Works

By Joe Gratz

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The world has a new good cause. A group of writers and academics with ties to the fanfic community has founded the Organization for Transformative Works. As befits an organization with its roots in a deeply postmodern art form, the organization is a bit of a pastiche: part EFF, providing legal support to the fanfic community; part Participatory Culture Foundation, creating and disseminating software that furthers its policy goals; and part academic society, publishing a peer-reviewed journal on “fanworks and practices.”

I’m exicted to see what they do. They’re certainly well-represented on the legal side, as Rebecca Tushnet, the leading legal scholar on fanfic, is on the organization’s founding board.

Full post as published by Joe Gratz on December 13, 2007 (boomark / email).

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