Ramblings and Wanderings

heidi8:

liquidhistory:

jaylie12:

I posted a couple days ago about the legality of fanfiction. Now let’s take a look at “legitimate” works that could be considered fanfiction. Here’s a sample:

• My Fair Lady (adapted from Pygmalion)
• West Side Story (just one of many reinventions of Romeo and Juliet)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (I don’t think I need to say anything here)
• Mists of Avalon (retelling of The Legend of Camelot) and several other works by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Lavinia (a side character from the Aeneid, who is the main character in Ursula Le Guin’s recent novel - which I find ironic/hypocritical because she’s an opponent of fanfiction but I still love her writing)
• Disney (Robin Hood as a fox, anyone?)

I found a very long list of works that fall under the definition of fanfiction, and someone also livejournaled about it.  Go here: I’m done explaining why fanfic is okay for an amazingly thorough cataloguing of these works.  And if you make it through the entire list, check out the resources…

The quoted section is by bookshop.tumblr.com - I contributed some of the references to it a billion years ago, and it’s a terrific resource. 

Chaeche from Snapecast and I will be presenting at Ascendio in Orlando in July on For How To Debate Clueless And Uninformed People About Transformative Works, or, El Tango de Roxanne; it’s going to cover fanfic-related issues and other types of transformative works, and we’re going to both explain why we are so committed to The Organization for Transformative Works as a fan-created project and its specific work to educate the world about fair use.

The article linked in my original post is to the bookshop livejournal post!  I am so excited to stumble upon someone who worked on this.  When I originally found the livejournal post, I was doing research on fanfiction case law for a policy class.  Fair use under the copyright law, derivative and transformative work, actual cases—I found it all very fascinating.  I wish I could attend you presentation, but alas, I am not nearby.  I will be sure to check out the project though.  Thanks for letting us all know!