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Hello! Once again Eurogamer is marking Pride Month - on this 50th anniversary of Pride in the UK - with a week of featu…

Much of what we do online involves reproducing copyrightable material, changing it, and/or making new works. Technically, pretty much every original tweet is copyrightable. And the vast majority of memes are based on copyrighted works. Your funny edits, mashups, and photoshopped jokes manipulate...

Copyright filters are having a bit of a moment in Washington D.C. The Copyright Office is moving ahead with a process to determine what, if anything, constitutes a standard technical measure (STM) that platforms would have to accommodate. And, if that proves too onerous, Congress has Big Content’s...

Queer epic All the Young Dudes – about Remus Lupin – has gone viral and is adored on GoodReads. But could it ever rival the original books?

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. “You are cordially invited to join New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors Marie Lu, Tahereh Mafi, Ransom Riggs, Adam Silvera, David Yoon, and Nicola Yoon in Realms of Ruin, a collaborative fantasy epic filled with dark magic, intrigue, […]

Making fanfiction beautiful enough for a bookshelf Book binders are making fanfiction physical, so it can sit alongside the authorized tales Share this story The only thing more beautiful than the red cloth stretched across the cover of Sarah Lesure’s handcrafted book is the swirling font filling up the pages inside. Each page is meticulously crafted to feel luxurious, like an expensive tome tucked on a back shelf in a little book shop. Lesure spends hours making sure each book looks unique a...

Archive of Our Own The Archive of Our Own — the beloved, Hugo-winning fanfiction platform shorthanded affectionately as AO3 — was famously created by fans, for fans. It’s run by a fandom nonprofit, coded and moderated by volunteers, and reliant on its huge community of users to help it carry out its mission of preserving and protecting fans’ work. Because the history of fandom includes a long lineage of fanfic authors fighting for the right to write and publish fanfiction without facing...

Section 230, which turned 25 years old this month, has played a central role in shaping the internet. Over the past year, Congress has introduced several proposals to change the law — some of them drastic — but the bills have often focused on a handful of very large tech companies like Facebook and Google. In reality, Section 230 has created a lot of the web as we know it. On Monday, March 1st, we’re holding an event on Section 230 and the future of tech regulation. After a keynote from S...

EVER found yourself thinking what would have happened in Outlander if the Jacobites had won at Culloden? Or maybe, when you were reading the Harry Potter books, you pondered about how the story would have unfolded if only Cedric Diggory had touched the Triwizard Cup? Or perhaps during the last series of Games of Thrones, you just simply wished it wasn’t so patchy. Well, alternatives to the stories you know are available. Tomorrow marks the seventh annual International Fanworks Day, ...