Our From Fanfic Resources
Throught my book Out from Fanfic: Transforming Creative Freesom, I drop a lot of “live” links that you might miss, or won’t notice at all if you are reading the hard-copy printed edition. I have collected them here for your to access whenever you need them!
Fanlore Links
Throughout the text I refer a lot to Fanlore, the fan-created and run wiki for all things about fandom. It’s a fantastic resource and I wish more people knew about it!
“Fanfiction by Year” container category
OCs (original characters)
Origfic (original fiction)
Other Links from the Text
2004 PSA (“You wouldn’t steal a car”)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (author)
By the Seat of Your Pants: Secrets of Discovery Writing by KimBoo York (“I’ve written a whole book”)
Gina Hogan Edwards (author)
Rhonda Eudaly (author)
Organization of Transformative Works (OTW)
OTW Legal Advocacy
OTW Open Doors
OTW Transformative Works and Cultures
Stargate Atlantis episode “Conversion” at IMDB
The Scriptorium (KimBoo York’s essay blog)
7 Figure Fiction Book by T. Thompson
Books
Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth by Camille Bacon-Smith (1992)
The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age by Francesca Coppa (2014)
The Fan Fiction Studies Reader by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (2015)
Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World by Anne Jamison (2015)
Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins (1992) This is considered the classic groundbreaking scholarly work on fandom, which essentially launched the field of fandom studies into the mainstream academic world.
Fan Culture: Theory/Practice by Katherine Larsen and Lynn Zubernis (2012)
The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in a Literary Context by Sheenagh Pugh (2006)
Readings on Copyright
I am not a lawyer, much less a copyright lawyer. Everything I’ve talked about here is my own opinion based on the research I’ve done over the years. Always, always consult with your own lawyer if you have questions about things like intellectual property, copyright, and trademarks.
That said, here is some further reading you might find helpful!
- Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu (Montagu is an IP lawyer, and Dr. Bellos is the director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, so this was an interesting team-up!)
- Pretty much anything by Cory Doctorow. His non-fiction work often addresses the topics of copyright, intellectual property, and creative labor markets in the digital age.
- Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis Hyde (one of my favorite books on copyright history, creative commons, and what it means to “share” art).
- Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law by Kembrew McLeod
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