{"id":16189,"date":"2012-07-25T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T13:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16189"},"modified":"2020-07-07T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T15:53:16","slug":"reason-tv-fan-fiction-versus-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/reason-tv-fan-fiction-versus-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: Fan fiction versus copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5g4c57qf_9Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It takes a big studio to make <em>The Avengers<\/em>, but it doesn&#8217;t necessarily take a big studio to write a piece of Avengers fan fiction,&#8221; says Georgetown University law professor and fan fiction advocate Rebecca Tushnet. &#8220;Big content companies largely recognize that fan activities are really good for them because they engage people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The growing popularity of fan fiction, a genre in which fans create their own stories featuring characters or settings from their favorite works of popular culture, raises thorny copyright issues. &#8220;Given how broad copyright is now, it&#8217;s now possible to say fan fiction is an infringing derivative work,&#8221; Tushnet explains. &#8220;In order to deal with that&#8230;we now talk about fair use, which allows people to make fair, limited uses of works without permission from the copyright owner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Organization for Transformative Works, Tushnet works to defend fan fiction creators caught in the legal debate between protected intellectual property and fair use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It takes a big studio to make The Avengers, but it doesn&#8217;t necessarily take a big studio to write a piece of Avengers fan fiction,&#8221; says Georgetown University law professor and fan fiction advocate Rebecca Tushnet. &#8220;Big content companies largely recognize that fan activities are really good for them because they engage people.&#8221; The growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,9,10,28],"tags":[135,1384,241,122,134],"class_list":["post-16189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cancon","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","tag-copyright","tag-fanfiction","tag-intellectualproperty","tag-movies","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4d7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16190,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions\/16190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}