Fanfiction History with The Fanfic Maverick Podcast!! PART ONE

A-TEAM, ASSEMBLE!! Sara joins forces with Beth from The Fanfic Maverick Podcast to take a DEEP DIVE into the history of fanfiction as we know it. From Ancient Greece to Ao3, we try and cover it all. 

How are fanfic authors protected by US Copyright Law? (Fair Use!) 
If George Lucas gets squicked out by your Luke/Han lemon, can his team of lawyers punt your PWP? (Not if you’re non-commercial, young padawan!) 
How much do you know about the speakeasy of fanfiction, that seedy backroom of the internet obscurely known as WWOMB? (Beth will regale you!) 
How many items on astolat's original Ao3 wishlist came true (ALL OF THEM! pretty much!)

AFTER LISTENING, subscribe to the Fanfic Maverick Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or whatever-- and stay tuned for PART 2: The exciting panel-style conclusion, where Sara and Beth round up a couple of fandom OGs who will tell you how is was-- and is! 

 

Contact and Credits:

Music: Kyle Laurin "In the Air Tonight" (Twitter: @cobrakylemusic)
Tumblr: talkinfanfic.tumblr.com 
Instagram: @talkinfanfic
Email: [email protected]

 

Biblio/Articles to Read

The Fanfic Maverick Podcast: SUBSCRIBE on your podcast platform, or find next week's episode HERE! https://www.fanficmaverickpodcast.com/ 
The Fanfiction Studies Reader (Univ of Iowa Press-- you can purchase direct from here, or please contact your local independent bookstore!) 
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_Page 
VICE, “The Forgotten Early History of Fanfiction” 
The Surprising 18th Century Origins of Fanfiction (The Atlantic) 
Fanart in the 18th Century -  "The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver" by William Hogarth 
Medium: "Fanfiction and Copyright" 
Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law  (R. Tushnet, Georgetown Law article, 1997)
"The Promise and Potential of Fanfiction" (The New Yorker) 
Alexander Pope wrote a series of “touching if bawdy” poems about Gulliver’s barely mentioned wife, Mary Gulliver, 
History of Media Fanzines (fanlore)
2021 article on Star Trek Prodigy Group ATF 
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Supernatural_Roundtable (Didn’t get to it, but I just thought this was cool)
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Chronology 
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_1994-2000-ish/Part_One 
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fandom_1994-2000-ish/Part_Two  
Webrings (fanlore) 
Gossamer Archive 
Trek Fiction (dot com) 
Due South Archive / Hexwood (1994)
Jedi Apprentice Fan Dimension (2000) (Sara’s first!)
http://www.lcfanfic.com/ Lois & Clark Fanfic Archive (1996 TO PRESENT)
A Brief History of Modern Fanfiction, the migration of online communities (cached article)
Announcing Fanfic.net: The Definitive Xfiles Source (fanlore)
LJ 2007 (there was also a second strikethrough purge later in 2008)
Fandom, Inc
Fanlore - cupidsbow "How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor" (April 26, 2007)
Cesperanza - “Dear Fandom: Could You Please Stop Saying That?” LJ (May 17, 2007)
Fanlore - Astolat’s “An Archive of One's Own”  (LJ, May 17 2007) (see more below) 
Wattpad sold (techcrunch article)