WTF
A friend of mine randomly asked me a question, "So what is your opinion on the organization for transformative works?"
It was met with long silence because for a while, I had to think what it was she was actually asking. I never did follow, so I had to ask what 'transformative works' wasSo she gave me this link ( Read more... )
It was met with long silence because for a while, I had to think what it was she was actually asking. I never did follow, so I had to ask what 'transformative works' wasSo she gave me this link ( Read more... )
"Transformative Works and Cultures is a peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices. The first issue will be published in late 2008."
Like any other academic journal, it will have articles on a variety of topics. The post giving information about the journal committee is here. It says, among other things:
"We'd like to announce our new Journal Committee, whose function is the launching of an international, blind peer-reviewed journal published online twice a year by the OTW. The journal will be committed to publishing high-quality academic research as a way to document and analyze fan histories, cultures, and artifacts. Its first issue is slated for publication in September 2008."
I'm not sure where you got the idea that it was going to be a vehicle for propaganda. The legal status of transformative works might be the subject of some of the individual papers in the journal, but it's not the focus of the whole thing. In any case, I expect that most of the submissions will be by professors and grad students in fields like media studies, not intellectual property law. (Though who knows.)
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I'm not sure where you got the idea that it was going to be a vehicle for propaganda.
The whole OTW is a propaganda. The fact that there's "legal assistance" there alone is dubious enough. If it's archiving people wanted, there are tons of archives that already welcome several different fandoms. If it's all the censorship and copyright issues (re: LJ), I may not agree with LJ but LJ is a private enterprise and they own the server where we do nothing but amuse ourselves. We comply to their rules if we want to stay. That's how companies work.
So I will repeat this for the last time: OTW is an unnecessary and excessive attempt of fans to be "taken seriously". Something that doesn't really need a 'fight'. Lots of more important things to do than worry about whether some person is insulting how I like personA and personB together and they're both gay and underage.
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