Day - 236 : some general info on legalities

[farad]

A friend of mine pointed me to this awesome, well-detailed IO9 article on the legalities ('fair use' among others) of fan works.  Though many of us know this stuff, this is one of the best articles I've seen for laying out the various issues of writing fanfic and making fanart, it's very current, and the legal mind they interviewed for it is Professor Rebecca Tushnet, "a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches intellectual property, advertising, and First Amendment law. She also happens to enjoy writing fan fiction and is a board member at the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit organization that promotes, supports, and provides legal advocacy for fan works." (The OTF is the power behind AO3, the awesome archive many of us are now using.)

it's long, but well worth the time to read if you're not up on the current thinking about the legalities (and/or illegalities) of what we do when we take our canonically het guys and put them in bed together - well, among a lot of other things.  *G*

"Are Fanfiction and Fanart Legal?"