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Fan fiction is the most widely known fan labor practice, and arguably one of the oldest, beginning at least as early as the 17th century. [4] [5] Fan fiction stories ("fan fic") are literary works produced by fans of a given media property, rather than the original creator.
The Organization for Transformative Works offers the following services and platforms to fans in a myriad of fandoms: . Archive of Our Own (AO3): An open-source, non-commercial, non-profit, multi-fandom web archive built by fans for hosting fan fiction and for embedding other fanwork, including fan art, fan videos, and podfic.
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...
Fan studies is an academic discipline that analyses fans, fandoms, fan cultures and fan activities, including fanworks.It is an interdisciplinary field located at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences, which emerged in the early 1990s as a separate discipline, and draws particularly on audience studies and cultural studies.
Many countries, and some U.S. states, have laws governing rights of publicity.In the United States, rights of publicity are governed by state statutes and state common law, and thus vary from state to state.
An alternative universe (also known as AU, alternate universe, alternative timeline, alternate timeline, alternative reality, alternate reality, parallel universe, or multiverse) is a setting for a work of fan fiction that departs from the canon of the fictional universe that the fan work is based on.
Articles relating to fan labor, the creative activities engaged in by fans, primarily those of various media properties or musical groups.These activities can include creation of written works (fiction, fan fiction and review literature), visual or computer-assisted art, music, or applied arts and costuming.
Transformative Works and Cultures is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.The journal collects essays, articles, book reviews, and shorter pieces that concern fandom, fanworks, and fan practices.