Fair use etc. applies to anything published in US and therefore to fanworks on e.g. AO3 and other fanwork sites. If you publish/upload your work there you are bound by the law that covers the site, regardless of where you live.
It is possible that some countries have different laws (the Brit and EU ones aren't quite as far-reaching) and that citizens could be in trouble for accessing the material. Certainly they might be in trouble for downloading it or for reposting it in their country of origin
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Hence my belief that my position is ludicrous, you can't operate in grand isolation anymore. Unless it's North Korea, no country passes legislation without reference to its neighbours and trading partners
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Yes, my concerns about TTIP extend way beyond a self-interested desire to keep polluting the internet with my scribblings! And fandom would survive - it has a pre-internet model. Like vinyl, zines would resurge, fan-built gatherings would revive as a means of communication. It would move off the commercial radar and back into people's living rooms
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Nothing to add to the legal analysis here, but I just wanted to add that this is also about the power of the big corporations over the little guys (the fans). It's great to have people like AO3 fighting for us all, but even then it's very easy for blanket bans to be applied which are near impossible for an individual to get lifted. Just try posting a fan-vid with a reasonably well-known song on YouTube or Vimeo. You can argue about Fair Use all you like but the embedded systems don't let you through. I feel it's very short-sighted of those companies because, let's face it, fan vids are free advertising for the music they use. And it'll just get worse - the world of photography, and art in general, is also under threat from this hardline approach.
I know, there's a company nuking the Beatles back catalogue (as far as I can tell, certain individual endeavours, as well those by the group). If you remember, I had to upload a vid to my Lj in order to post it to CI5 HQ in remembrance of Minori. (http://ci5hq.livejournal.com/301463.html... )
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