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Harvard Law Today announced the appointment of 'Rebecca Tushnet, a leading First Amendment scholar,' who helped found the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks, and currently volunteers on its legal committee.

In 'The Fate of Reading in a Multimedia Age' for LA Review of Books, Sabrina Ricci wrote The average reading time [on Wattpad] is 30 minutes per day, and the most popular genres are romance, teen fiction, and fan fiction.

From BuzzFeed’s Bim Adewunmi: Why "The Walking Dead" Has Become Fanfiction’s Muse.

From Marty Rosen in Louisville Eccentric Observer: A few years back, when "Fifty Shades of Grey" made the leap from fan fiction to hit novel, I read a few of the excerpts that popped up online. My conclusion: Stupidity is not erotic.

In a review of World of Final Fantasy for Asian Age, Parth Bagaria wrote It almost feels like fan fiction, where all your favourite characters from the franchise come together on a journey across your favourite locations.

For Glamour, Christopher Rosa wrote Nearly every really intelligent person I know has read the Harry Potter series. Furthermore, they're Potter stans—super-fans who spend hours debating Dumbledore theories on Tumblr and writing their own fan fiction. This can't be a coincidence, right? Clearly, the Harry Potter books contain invisible "smart waves" that are transferred to every child who reads them. These tykes become brainiacs—cool brainiacs, at that. All I developed from my choice in pre-teen lit was a Valley girl accent. A fake one. And, Alhambra Source’s Karin Chan profiled Naomi Ko, actor and resident Harry Potter fanfiction writer.

In 'Somewhere Between Slash Fiction and Cosplay, Slash Finds Identity' for Out Magazine, R. Kurt Osenlund quoted lead actor Michael Johnston: "I knew a lot about fan fic because of my voice-over experience, specifically in video games and cartoons."

For The Atlantic, Megan Garber wrote You can attribute that to a combination of factors—his genial, expressive face; his persona’s mixture of frankness and affability; the fact that he occupies an office that lends itself especially well to fan-fictional speculation; his general intolerance for malarkey—but they have resulted, all in all, in [US VP Joe] Biden becoming, in the worst way and also the best, a running joke. And, for CNN, AJ Willingham wrote clearly Obama/Biden/Clinton fans are taking out their election frustration by concocting what amounts to massively nerdy presidential revenge fan fiction.

The Daily Northwestern’s Jake Holland wrote about a Winter Quarter course inspired by Hamilton, in which students will focus on key elements of legal history, such as the copyright of "Hamilton" fanfiction, fan art, videos and parodies.

According to The Daily Dot’s April Siese, @mikepence has already tweeted a hodgepodge fanfiction depicting Pence and Trump as star-crossed lovers.

For a piece on nasal fetishes for The Sun, Josie Griffiths shared the on-line anonymous comment "About 3-4 years ago I actually stumbled upon some sneeze fan fiction and I was in heaven."

Live Science senior writer Tia Ghose said, of a sample of machine-assisted prose, This is no Ray Bradbury — or even Spock fan-fiction.

Daily Californian’s Neil Lawrence wrote My interest in queer history once approached an obsession. It grew naturally out of the fertile ground of my childhood archaeology fixation and my early adolescent fan fiction phase.

Finally, in 'Stephenie Meyer's great chemistry with Jeremy Renner' for USA Today, Jocelyn McClurg wrote that Meyer wrote [Bourne Legacy] fan fiction for [production partner Meghan] Hibbet’s birthday.
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