Organization for Transformative Works

Organization for Transformative Works
Organization for Transformative Works
Abbreviation OTW
Motto "run by and for fans to provide access to and preserve the history of fanworks and fan cultures"[1]
Formation May 17, 2007 (2007-05-17) (4 years ago)[2]
Type non-profit
Main organ board of directors, elected annually
Website http://transformativeworks.org/

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 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 14th November 2009,[9] and has been growing steadily since.[10]

References

  1. ^ Organization for Transformative Works, http://transformativeworks.org/, retrieved 28 November 2009 
  2. ^ Organization for Transformative Works (2007), Annual Report 2007, 1, pp. 4, http://transformativeworks.org/sites/default/files/OTW_Annual_Report_2007.pdf, retrieved 28 November 2009 
  3. ^ Cody, Steve; Ford, Sam (December 28, 2007). "What businesses learned in 2007 about the digital race". The Christian Science Monitor. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33862969_ITM. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 
  4. ^ Ulaby, Neda (25 February 2009). "Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses". NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101154811. Retrieved 28 November 2009. 
  5. ^ Hill, Logan (12 November 2007). "The Vidder". New York Magazine. http://nymag.com/movies/features/videos/40622/. Retrieved 28 November 2009. 
  6. ^ Lieb, Rebecca (March 28, 2008). "Transformative Fans Transform Brands". ClickZ. http://www.clickz.com/3628910. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 
  7. ^ 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. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/four-short-links-19-may-2009.html. Retrieved 28 November 2009. 
  8. ^ Jenkins, Henry (5 December 2008). "Fan Vidding: A Labor Of Love (Part One)". http://henryjenkins.org/2008/12/fanvidding.html. Retrieved 28 November 2009. 
  9. ^ "Announcing Open Beta". AO3 News. November 14, 2009. http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/7. Retrieved 2009-11-19. 
  10. ^ "Stats for the curious - let there be charts!". AO3 News. November 19, 2009. http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/13. Retrieved 2009-11-19. 


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