fit into the larger scheme
of fanworks and conversations within fandom.
Today is the day to celebrate the
wonderful fanworks that people make and share with fellow fans around the world.
Neither of those could be further from the truth,
because fanworks encompass all genres and ratings.
In a piece for The New Statesman, fan culture writer Elizabeth Minkel has a great take on why continuing to ask celebrities for their take on
select fanworks is part of what fuels the sad misconception that the only fanfiction out there is solely smut — or, in the case of the Norton clip, that the only fanart is the more explicit kind.
For every AM2R, there are literally hundreds of
Metroid fanworks that they leave alone on account of no one actually caring about them.
In my last piece, I talked about ways in which mods for games like Dragon Age: Inquisition fit into the larger scheme
of fanworks and conversations within fandom.
Cringeworthy as those moments are, they're also a reminder of the fact at a certain level
fanworks are not really intended to be interpreted by celebrities who don't understand it — because the celebs aren't really who the fanworks are for.
The 2015 Hugo Awards, honouring the best science fiction and fantasy works and achievements of the previous year across a number of categories, including books, television, film, and
fanworks, have been beset by controversy this year.
Honestly, the more reactions I see the more I think that those fanfic writers who want to make money by writing are already trying — by writing original fic alongside it, or sometimes by filing the serial numbers off
their fanworks, or by writing fanfic of public domain works.
Since I do see
this fanwork does infringe and affect the distinctiveness of this game in the mind of the public, but what are the ramifications of losing a trademark in contrast with a copyright?