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Charmian (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} charmian) wrote,@ 2008-07-18 22:19:00 |
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http://ethrosdemon.livejournal.com/4236
It's good to see someone talking about concerns about the OTW who is within Western media fandom, and focusing on core issues, rather than the side ones. As much as some OTW supporters say that the archive is the center, that doesn't really matter because no one objects to the idea of an archive, it's the legal issues people question.
I personally don't experience her issue with the OTW that people will see it as representing her, because I'm an anime fan and fair use doesn't exist in Japan, and also I don't write fanfiction, and go whole months without reading any. But I can understand that issue, that people will believe that all fanfic fans share the ideology of the OTW. I don't know if anything can be done about it. This will hold especially true if the OTW ever does anything controversial to the general public or creative groups outside fandom.
She also goes into the legal aspects. Personally, I think her viewpoint is more... realistic? than that of a lot of people who feel that fanfic is already fair use in the US. (A legal article recently concluded that it is probably not "fair dealing" in Canada, and someone on my flist, a legal student, is in the process of writing an article about how it is probably not "fair dealing" in Australia either. IANAL but I suspect the same applies to Britain. No one has even mentioned France and Germany, or the rest of the EU. )
It's good to see someone talking about concerns about the OTW who is within Western media fandom, and focusing on core issues, rather than the side ones. As much as some OTW supporters say that the archive is the center, that doesn't really matter because no one objects to the idea of an archive, it's the legal issues people question.
I personally don't experience her issue with the OTW that people will see it as representing her, because I'm an anime fan and fair use doesn't exist in Japan, and also I don't write fanfiction, and go whole months without reading any. But I can understand that issue, that people will believe that all fanfic fans share the ideology of the OTW. I don't know if anything can be done about it. This will hold especially true if the OTW ever does anything controversial to the general public or creative groups outside fandom.
She also goes into the legal aspects. Personally, I think her viewpoint is more... realistic? than that of a lot of people who feel that fanfic is already fair use in the US. (A legal article recently concluded that it is probably not "fair dealing" in Canada, and someone on my flist, a legal student, is in the process of writing an article about how it is probably not "fair dealing" in Australia either. IANAL but I suspect the same applies to Britain. No one has even mentioned France and Germany, or the rest of the EU. )
