Etsy

Website
Name:	Etsy
Owner/Maintainer:
Dates:	2005 - present
Type:	Store
Fandom:
URL:	http://etsy.com
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Etsy is a large online retailer of handmade or vintage goods. A huge variety of fanworks can be found for sale, including fandom-based clothing, jewelry, perfume, fanart, and fanzines. Most sellers describe their shop as a "small business".

"Fan Art and Fair Use: One Truth and Five Myths" by Etsy staff

Once your fic is no longer on AO3 and is instead being sold on Etsy, you’re outside of community norms now. There is very little way to fully protect anything that’s on the internet. Once it’s out there, it’s out there.

Stacey Lantagne, Western New England University School of Law

Further reading

• Fandom and Profit

References

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