FanLib reason for creation of OTW?

[stewardess]

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Scholars have joined with pop-culture fans to form the Organization for Transformative Works, which will fight for the legal right to produce creative works that mash-up characters from a range of media.

Mr. Jenkins cited a situation this past summer in which a company called FanLib upset its customers by

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[stewardess]

I am not dismissing him. I'm pointing out the male reporter sought out Jenkins as a recognized authority instead of the just-as-accredited (and more fandom experienced) female members of the OTW board. It's the reporter I'm criticizing, not Jenkins.

I recommend the entries in this community tagged fanlib: sexism. It may add to your perspective.

If you check the tag, you'll find Jenkins recently hosted a series titled "Gender and Fan Studies." I've seen estimates putting the percentage of fanfiction writers who are female as high as 95%. A poll at FanLib showed over 90% of their members are women. Jenkins recognizes the world of fanfiction cannot transcend gender; it must address it.

Fanfiction issues are necessarily women's issues, just as the poor pay and terrible treatment of nurses in 1860 were women's issues -- there were no male nurses.

If OTW ignored that the majority of fanfiction writers are women, they would be unable to defend and advance our interests.

This hypocrisy will do to OTW what greed did to Fanlib. At this point, I honestly think Fanlib may be the less harmful of the two.

I can't comment on that. OTW and FanLib are so different from each other in their composition, aims, and purpose that I'm unable to draw comparisons between them. Also, it's not logical to criticize FanLib for their greed, or say it caused them damage. There is no proof FanLib is any greedier than any other for-profit business, or that they are suffering as a result. Most of the criticism of FanLib in this community is aimed at their ignorance of the fanfiction community they are trying to exploit.