Timeline of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Fandom: Organization for Transformative Works
Dates: 2007-present
See also: Timeline of the Archive of Our Own

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Below is a timeline of milestones and significant developments involving the Organization for Transformative Works.

This page is meant to highlight major events in OTW history, such as its origin, Board changes, project milestones, and major controversies. For a timeline of meta essays, see Timeline of Organization for Transformative Works Meta. For a timeline on the AO3 project specifically, see Timeline of the Archive of Our Own.

Some 2007 Context

Other major conversations and proposals were happening that spring regarding fanfiction and control. Some of them were:

2007

2008

For links to many fan comments, primarily in 2007 and 2008: see Beginnings of OTW: 2007-08 Comments.

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024


References

  1. ^ "On the other hand, now that the pitchfork and torch waving mobs have gone after Six Apart, the "really cool" guys at FanLib must be breathing a sigh of relief. It's been a shitty couple of weeks for fandom.") -- May 30, 2007 comment at Metafilter: livejournal suspends hundreds of accounts, Archived version
  2. ^ Who Is, Who Is
  3. ^ "Bravo! I'd dearly love to see an end to the two-tier world we've been maintaining, where a book that's clearly fanfic about the March girls' father from Little Women can win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (March, by Geraldine Brooks), but transformative reworkings of movies, television shows, video games, commercials, and uncountable other sources are afforded neither respect, nor access to commerce, nor the protection of the law. It's the exact equivalent of the system whereby high-end "literary" publishers can publish books in which underage characters have sex, but cheap paperback publishers who do so risk prosecution. The functional status of fanfic right now is that it can be written, and posted to the internet, as long as the author is willing to give up all rights to her (or occasionally his) own work, and accepts that this irregular legal tolerance may be withdrawn in the future. This just isn't fair. Fanfic is a natural human impulse. As long as people care about literature, they'll write fanfic about it." posted by posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden/Moderator and "This is such a good idea. When Naomi described it at the WorldCon at a panel that we were on together, I wrote her a check on the spot for $500 to fund the org. I hope she cashes it now that they've formally announced." -- posted by Cory Doctrow) as a comment at Organization for Transformative Works: defend fandom!; Archive
  4. ^ 09:21, 4 August 2008 edit by user:Hope
  5. ^ explanation by the Elections committee
  6. ^ New general issue TWC 30 published, Transformative Works and Cultures. Published September 15, 2019 (Accessed March 15, 2020).
  7. ^ Celebrating 10 Years of Archive of Our Own, Transformative Works. Published November 10, 2019 (Accessed March 15, 2020).
  8. ^ Celebrating 50,000 pages! by fanlore_mod via Dreamwidth. Published November 24, 2019 (Accessed March 15, 2020).