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Fan made works are labors of love. That’s the argument from any fan website you go to. There will usually be an impassioned plea that the website host and the authors contained within the website are making their works out of love for their media product of choice and have the best intentions. Unfortunately, what they think are just labors of love are actually complex legal issues involving fair use, the First Amendment and the whole idea of remix culture. Fanfiction, fan art, fanmixes and fan created websites are byproducts of a fan culture accelerated by the Internet, and are fascinating case studies about what happens when copyright law clashes with a very real culture.
Fanfiction and Fair Use
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