Everybody’s Got a Special Kind of Story
I've been meaning to post my thoughts on the Organization for Transformative Works ever since first hearing about it at jack_pride's delightful Christmas shindig, and then doing an embarrassing amount of my own research over the holidays.
Whenever that comes, it'll be a very long and (in all likelihood) very legalistic entry--which may bore some or all of you to tears.
In the meantime, though, I emailed Julie Hilden, one of the FindLaw columnists I read regularly, suggesting that she might want to write about the OTW in a future column, since the issues surrounding it (free speech, copyright and fair use, etc.) seem right up her alley.
Much to my surprise, she actually took my suggestion, as you can see by her latest column: "The Organization for Transformative Works and Its Bid to Protect Fan Fiction: Are Its Proposed Changes to Copyright Law, Creating Immunity for Suits Against FanFic, a Good Idea?"
Feel free to take a look, if you're actually interested in such issues, and stay tuned for my own take on the matter...
Whenever that comes, it'll be a very long and (in all likelihood) very legalistic entry--which may bore some or all of you to tears.
In the meantime, though, I emailed Julie Hilden, one of the FindLaw columnists I read regularly, suggesting that she might want to write about the OTW in a future column, since the issues surrounding it (free speech, copyright and fair use, etc.) seem right up her alley.
Much to my surprise, she actually took my suggestion, as you can see by her latest column: "The Organization for Transformative Works and Its Bid to Protect Fan Fiction: Are Its Proposed Changes to Copyright Law, Creating Immunity for Suits Against FanFic, a Good Idea?"
Feel free to take a look, if you're actually interested in such issues, and stay tuned for my own take on the matter...