Organization for Transformative Works |
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Abbreviation | OTW |
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Motto | "run by and for fans to provide access to and preserve the history of fanworks and fan cultures"[1] |
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Formation | 17 May 2007 (2007-05-17) (5 years ago)[2] |
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Type | non-profit |
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Main organ | board of directors, elected annually |
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Website | http://transformativeworks.org/ |
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The Organization For Transformative Works (OTW) is a non-profit organization that advocates for the transformative and legitimate nature of fan labor activities, including fan fiction, fan vids, anime music videos, and real person fiction.[3][4][5] It is an organization advocating for the legality of fan works, and its primary focus is protecting fan fiction, fan art, fan videos, and other transformative works from legal snafus and commercial exploitation.[6]
The Organization for Transformative Works offers the following services to fans in fandoms:
- An open-source, non-commercial, non-profit archive for fan fiction and other transformative fanac ("Archive of Our Own"), built by fans (many without previous coding experience)[7]
- A wiki for preserving fandom oral history (Fanlore)
- Legal assistance to the fandom community, addressing the legal issues with fan fiction and other fan works
- Preservation of fannish historical artifacts, such as zines and Geocities websites ("Open Doors")
- A peer-reviewed academic journal for scholarship on fanworks and practices ("Transformative Works and Cultures")
- A series of short documentaries on vidding, in combination with participatory culture academic Henry Jenkins and the New Media Literacies project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[8]
Archive of Our Own
The Archive launched into Open Beta on 14 November 2009,[9] and has been growing steadily since.[10][11]
References
- ^ Organization for Transformative Works, http://transformativeworks.org/, retrieved 28 November 2009
- ^ Organization for Transformative Works (2007), Annual Report 2007 1, p. 4, retrieved 28 November 2009
- ^ Cody, Steve; Ford, Sam (28 December 2007). "What businesses learned in 2007 about the digital race". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
- ^ Ulaby, Neda (25 February 2009). "Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses". NPR. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
- ^ Hill, Logan (12 November 2007). "The Vidder". New York Magazine. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
- ^ Lieb, Rebecca (28 March 2008). "Transformative Fans Transform Brands". ClickZ. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
- ^ Torkington, Nat (19 May 2009). "Four short links: 19 May 2009 -- Recession Map, Gaming Psychology, Charging For Unwanted Content, and Two Great Projects". O'Reilly Radar. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
- ^ Jenkins, Henry (5 December 2008). "Fan Vidding: A Labor Of Love (Part One)". Retrieved 28 November 2009.
- ^ "Announcing Open Beta". AO3 News. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
- ^ "Stats for the curious - let there be charts!". AO3 News. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
- ^ "2012 AO3 Milestones". AO3 News. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
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Fandom |
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| By type | Genre | - Furry fandom
- Science fiction fandom
- Yaoi fandom
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| Medium-specific | - Anime and manga fandom
- Sports fandom
- Video game fandom
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| Production-specific | - Brony
- Browncoat
- Harry Potter fandom
- James Bond fandom
- Stargate fandom
- Tolkien fandom
- Trekkie
- Whovian
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| Demographics | - Anti-fan
- Cult following
- Fan
- Groupie
- Otaku
- Stan
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| Organizations and events | - Amateur press association
- Fan club
- Fan convention
- Game club
- Historical reenactment
- Live action role-playing game
- Organization for Transformative Works
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| Publications and activities | - Anime music video
- Fan art
- Fan edit
- Fan fiction
- Fan film
- Fan labor
- Fan mail
- Fan translation
- Fanac
- Fansite
- Fanspeak
- Fanzine
- Filk music
- Real person fiction
- Vidding
- Zine
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| Conventions | By topic | - Anime
- Comic book
- Furry
- Gaming
- Horror
- Multigenre
- Science fiction
- list / by date of establishment
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Fan fiction |
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| Genres | - Alternative universe
- Expanded Universe
- Fan film
- Femslash
- Fictional crossover
- Real person fiction
- Slash fiction
- Songfic
- Uberfic
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| Fandoms | - Anime and manga fandom
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom
- Doctor Who fandom
- Harry Potter fandom
- Hercules / Xena fandom
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom
- Science fiction fandom
- Star Trek fandom
- Stargate fandom
- Tolkien fandom
- Yaoi fandom
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| Published works | - Another Hope
- Beautiful Bastard
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- Gabriel's Inferno
- Time's Champion
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| Writing styles | - Author surrogate
- Mary Sue
- MSTing
- Self-insertion
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| Related topics | - FanFiction.Net
- The Gossamer Project
- Organization for Transformative Works
- Kirk/Spock
- Legal issues with fan fiction
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