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OTW Fannews: Terms in Use
Sprache Englisch 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...
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Sprache Englisch 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...
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OTW Fannews: Learning from Fanfic
Sprache Englisch 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
Sprache Englisch 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:...
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OTW Fannews: Commercial Exploits
Sprache Englisch 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...
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OTW Fannews: Fandom Advice
Sprache Englisch 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
Sprache Englisch 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...
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OTW Fannews: Balance of Power
Sprache Englisch 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...
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OTW Guest Post: Donna Davies
Sprache Englisch 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...
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OTW Joins Save The Link
Sprache Englisch 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...
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Happy SysAdmin Day!
Sprache Englisch 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...
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OTW Fannews: Staying Vigilant
Sprache Englisch 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...
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OTW Fannews: OTW Sightings
Sprache Englisch Members of OTW's Legal Committee have proposed panels for next year's South By Southwest (SXSW) conference on fair use and fandom. They are asking for fans to support the inclusion of...
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Save the Link Needs Your Voice
Sprache Englisch As we announced in July, the OTW has partnered with the Save the Link coalition in an effort to prevent countries around the world from creating laws that would punish online services...
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OTW Fannews: Coming Attractions
Sprache Englisch Both the Wall Street Journal and The Global Timeswrote about China's approach to fanworks and intellectual property. The Journal reported on Alibaba Pictures' plans to "no longer hire...
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