A-TEAM, ASSEMBLE!! Sara joins forces with Beth from The Fanfic Maverick Podcast to take a DEEP DIVE into the history of fanfiction as we know it. From Ancient Greece to Ao3, we try and cover it all.
- How are fanfic authors protected by US Copyright Law? (Fair Use!)
- If George Lucas gets squicked out by your Luke/Han lemon, can his team of lawyers punt your PWP? (Not if you’re non-commercial, young padawan!)
- How much do you know about the speakeasy of fanfiction, that seedy backroom of the internet obscurely known as WWOMB? (Beth will regale you!)
- How many items on astolat's original Ao3 wishlist came true (ALL OF THEM! pretty much!)
AFTER LISTENING, subscribe to the Fanfic Maverick Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or whatever-- and stay tuned for PART 2: The exciting panel-style conclusion, where Sara and Beth round up a couple of fandom OGs who will tell you how is was-- and is!
Contact and Credits:
- Music: Kyle Laurin "In the Air Tonight" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
- Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com
- Instagram: @talkinfanfic
- Email: talkinfanfic@gmail.com
Biblio/Articles to Read
- The Fanfic Maverick Podcast: SUBSCRIBE on your podcast platform, or find next week's episode HERE! https://www.fanficmaverickpodcast.com/
- The Fanfiction Studies Reader (Univ of Iowa Press-- you can purchase direct from here, or please contact your local independent bookstore!)
- https://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_Page
- VICE, “The Forgotten Early History of Fanfiction”
- The Surprising 18th Century Origins of Fanfiction (The Atlantic)
- Fanart in the 18th Century - "The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver" by William Hogarth
- Medium: "Fanfiction and Copyright"
- Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law (R. Tushnet, Georgetown Law article, 1997)
- "The Promise and Potential of Fanfiction" (The New Yorker)
- Alexander Pope wrote a series of “touching if bawdy” poems about Gulliver’s barely mentioned wife, Mary Gulliver,
- History of Media Fanzines (fanlore)
- 2021 article on Star Trek Prodigy Group ATF
- https://fanlore.org/wiki/Supernatural_Roundtable (Didn’t get to it, but I just thought this was cool)
- https://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Chronology
- https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_1994-2000-ish/Part_One
- https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_1994-2000-ish/Part_Two
- Webrings (fanlore)
- Gossamer Archive
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