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AO3 Is the Classy FanFiction Archive

I recently had the pleasure of getting invited to make an account on AO3, An Archive of Our Own from the estimable Organization for Transformative Works. Ok, I begged for an invite from an In Real Life friend who I met because I liked reading her fanfiction, followed her on Twitter, then had coffee with [...]

Blame It On The Fandom

I read a great deal of fanfiction last week. I had most of last week off for Carnival and finished my 5th year project:

To celebrate finishing this anthology, which I have stressed about for longer than possibly anything but getting into college, I spent a few days diving into a fandom I haven’t spent [...]

I have a summer gig! (Intern at Harvard Law School)

Today I accepted an offer to intern for a professor working on a wide range of Internet governance and technology-and-society issues. I’ll be focusing on a educational technology project and helping out with other projects as they come along. It will let me dig deeply into my intellectual property nerdiness and my civil liberties nerdiness, [...]

My Senior Honors Thesis

As many of you know, I’ve spent the last year writing my Senior Honors Thesis. I’ve blogged most of it. Below you can find the entire text (you can also download it here.) I turned it in two weeks ago, and decided to share it now that some of the end-of-semester dust has [...]

Assassins Creed Parody Sets a (Funny) Standard for Fair Use

Writing about my proposals for modifications to Fair Use, I have to refer to textbook cases: journalistic quotes, parody, and, well, textbooks. They tend to be staid; conservative; boring. What I would love to do is point my readers to something like this:

It takes the whole, copyrighted work (the Assassins Creed trailer), makes a [...]