Chris Williams's Spelling Improves In Masculine Company.
Instead of links to the fantastic analyses of the Chris Williams, FanLib CEO, interview at Henry Jenkins' blog, I give you the Chris Williams Henry Jenkins Interview tag. Here are a few I found outside of this community.

slashpine: Another one of those pesky smart women.

justhuman polls us about the ( Read more... )

Give Us Your Fanfiction.net Password! And Other FanLib Blunders
ithiliana is understandably stunned that FanLib asks members for their Fanfiction.net password [Ed: It's used by FanLib for semi-automated story importing]. She links to the thread where the subject first came up.

scarah2 reports that, in response to the above, fanfiction.net has implemented an ( Read more... )

Livejournal and Blog Discussions

A BBC blogger writes: "Even if companies like Fan Lib were to create spaces protected from cease and desist notices, for some fans it would inevitably be a censored space." Now includes an audio interview with Henry Jenkins.

telesilla tells us why fanfiction matters to her, and why FanLib should not get its hands on it. ( Read more... )

Community Relations Are Make Or Break.
Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture, weighs in on FanLib. Quote: As fans note, however, FanLib's efforts to commercialize fan fiction represented the worst case scenario: a highly publicized, for profit venture which left fan fiction writers even more exposed than they have before.

Convergence ( Read more... )

FanLib's Funding From H.I.G. Ventures?
A short article at paidcontent.org identifies the source of FanLib's $3 million in funding as H.I.G. Ventures. This appears to contradict the information reported at mashup.com and many other sites, which says: FanLib has also received a reported $3 million in funding from prominent names in Hollywood and ( Read more... )

Edit and update: Uh, I'm a little confused, here, but this page on Diane Duane's Young Wizards site makes it seem as though she's working with FanLib?

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I haven't seen much discussion around the fact that Hilary Rosen of the RIAA is the head of FanLib's test-case site for The L Word. I've posted about that on my LJ.

More links:

Here's the ( Read more... )

Legal Articles Discussing Fan Fiction
From morgandawn: The legal landscape is shifting. None of us have clear answers or a good handle on possible risks.

"Corporate Rock Still Sucks"...and corporate fanfic even more so
From vulgarweed: Lack of money, career pressures, and recognition under my own name are the reasons why I enjoy fanfic so much. It's a feature, not a ( Read more... )

FanLib's forum for questions about the web site.

Brief suspiciously optimistic article on FanLib at the blog mashable.com. A troll's comments have made this an entertaining read.

Jdsampson: My Official I Love Fanlib Thread!!! Friends-locked and no longer accessible.

Icarusancalion: FanLib Invitation. One of the select few. Like hell.

Telesilla ( Read more... )