Manacled, a Dramione fanfiction, going viral on Booktok started a chain of events that could make fanfiction illegal -- unless we all work together to keep fanfiction free for all...

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In this fandom video essay and fandom commentary video, I talked about how the incredibly popular fanfiction "Manacled" by SenLinYu went viral on Booktok (the book focused portion of Tiktok), making Dramione and Dramione fanfiction incredibly popular on the platform as well. This virality caused people to try to find a way to make money off the fanfiction via binding and selling copies of it, also known as "fanbinding." But this practice violates copyright law and puts all of fanfiction in legal danger, breaking the fandom norm of noncommerciality. I argue that this is simply part of a larger trend of craving monetization of fandom, and that it threatens us all.

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Check out my video on the related Harry Potter subfandom, the Marauders Fandom here:    • i have problems with the marauders fa...  

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:45 The Legality of Fanfiction
3:06 Copyright Law and Fanfiction
5:14 Trademark Law and Fanfiction
8:01 What is Dramione?
12:00 Booktok and Dramione
13:08 Manacled: The Viral Dramione Fic
14:19 The Problem with Fanbinding
19:22 Fandom and Monetization

Important Links:
Copyright law on fair use: https://web.archive.org/web/201110091...
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ...
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92c...
Romanenkova, Kate, The Fandom Problem: A Precarious Intersection of Fanfiction and Copyright (May 20, 2014). 18 Intellectual Property Law Bulletin 183, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2490788
OTW Legal: https://www.transformativeworks.org/l...
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_i...


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