Well, this was unexpected

Most of you aren’t going to find this at all interesting, but for those who have any idea what I’m talking about I’ve got a question about fandom.

I’ve taken it to be ‘common knowledge’ in fandom that media property owners do not officially support fan-fiction due to potential legal problems. This argument always struck me as kind of silly, but given the nature of our civil court system plausible. And today I ran across this:

It turns out that on the official Avatar: the Last Airbender boards there is a specific forum dedicated to fan-fiction. Now as someone who’s extremely interested in media remixing (sorry, ) and trans-media stuff, this strikes me as awesome! But it flies in the face of the ‘common knowledge’ thing. So, um, what’s up?

Thomas

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