Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 30, 2022

I predict a cease and desist letter”; “I WILL DEFINITELY BE CONTACTING NICKOLODEON TO ASK IF THIS GHETTO PLACE HAVE THE RIGHTS.”. Fanworks seek to create something pleasurable—and sometimes profitable—that exploits’ fans love for the universe and its characters but risk trademark and copyright liability in the process.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Organization for Transformative Works, Rebecca Tushnet: The Organization for Transformative Works (“OTW”) is a nonprofit established to protect and defend fans and fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. That’s not really true of costs of overblocking—it’s a limited definition of costs.]

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APRIL 7, 2023

The nonprofit I work with, the Organization for Transformative Works (“OTW”) was established in 2007 to protect and defend fans and fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. Model takes as a given that regulator has a definition of harm, and that’s actually hugely significant and contested. Grimmelmann: Agree entirely.

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