Question

[paraka]

So, I've spent most of the day reading up on what people are saying about the OTW are saying. Mostly from non-fandom people, and it's kind of making me want to shoot things, but I was wondering:

What do you think about the OTW? Would you like an archive? A written fannish history? A wiki (OMG, I can't tell you how much I'd like a wiki for fandom, although I can see it being vandalized a lot)? Do you think it's a good idea to have a legal defense fund? If the OTW were ever to go to court, would you support them?

I'm planning on making a post sometime about how I feel about it, but I'm really curious as to what other people on my flist think about it. I think so far only one person on my flist has really written about it, but I spent a couple months away so could have totally missed something.

Also, I am having a bitch of a time working on a mysql database, any one know enough about setting up eFiction to want to help?

Comments

[tacky-tramp.livejournal.com]

As someone who strongly believes that most, if not all, fanfiction is legal, I'm very excited about OTW. Whether or not we "need" a multifandom archive, it will be very nice to have that resource available -- an archive that is run by people who will not run scared at the first sight of takedown notices and the like. But you knew that already. :)

[paraka]

As someone who strongly believes that most, if not all, fanfiction is legal, I'm very excited about OTW. Whether or not we "need" a multifandom archive, it will be very nice to have that resource available
Ha, you sound a lot like me. I tend to think mostly about the legal side of things, and it's only as an after thought that I remember the archive part. I would enjoy having a big, well known multifandom archive that isn't ff.net though, for those times I have a one day desire to read fic from a fandom I'm not in, or one that's really small/rare.