I've been following OTW since it's first glimmer in a few BNFs personal journals and, while I'm ambiguous about the tenor of the organization, I'm pretty positive about several of the things they're trying to do.
I'm very interested in a central archive, so long as there's no cost to join and they do not have some sort of 'quality' restrictions (as 'quality' in fandom is mindbogglingly controversial, plus I don't think that sort of restriction has a place in fandom).
I suspect that the first time they are actually faced with a lawsuit, they will be very, very surprised and I remain quite concerned about the information that one of their lawyers has a very bad odor in fandom as a suspected/known plagarist. Personally, I belive that OTW is right - that fanfiction and other fanworks fall under the fair use clause of copyright law so, yes, I would support them if they were taken to court.
However: there are several fan wikis out there including: http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php/Main_Page which has been in existence for several years but is still struggling to get its existence out. I thing the owner has some trouble with ... objectivity however she is committed to allowing the wiki to be edited, created and modified to expand the range of opinions. She is also, I think, a bandom/rockfic (not sure of the terminology here) fan and not at all personally involved in fanfiction, particularly LJ - so her knowledge of that sort of material is limited. She is, in fact, putting out a call for fandom to help her with the wiki, to expand the information, do fact checking and so on. There are others, I belive theres a spesifc fanwiki.
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I'm very interested in a central archive, so long as there's no cost to join and they do not have some sort of 'quality' restrictions (as 'quality' in fandom is mindbogglingly controversial, plus I don't think that sort of restriction has a place in fandom).
I suspect that the first time they are actually faced with a lawsuit, they will be very, very surprised and I remain quite concerned about the information that one of their lawyers has a very bad odor in fandom as a suspected/known plagarist. Personally, I belive that OTW is right - that fanfiction and other fanworks fall under the fair use clause of copyright law so, yes, I would support them if they were taken to court.
However: there are several fan wikis out there including: http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php/Main_Page which has been in existence for several years but is still struggling to get its existence out. I thing the owner has some trouble with ... objectivity however she is committed to allowing the wiki to be edited, created and modified to expand the range of opinions. She is also, I think, a bandom/rockfic (not sure of the terminology here) fan and not at all personally involved in fanfiction, particularly LJ - so her knowledge of that sort of material is limited. She is, in fact, putting out a call for fandom to help her with the wiki, to expand the information, do fact checking and so on. There are others, I belive theres a spesifc fanwiki.
(pardon the happy new year spelling ;/)