Who Owns Our Culture?: The Battle Over the Internet, Copyright, Media Fandom, and Everyday Uses of the Cultural Commons

Who Owns Our Culture? The Battle Over the Internet, Copyright, Media Fandom, and Everyday Uses of the Cultural Commons is a 2002 academic paper by Susan Clerc. It was a Ph.D dissertation for Bowling Green State University.
==Abstract==
==The Table of Contents==
INTRODUCTION	 (1)
CHAPTER I. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE	(11)
* A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far. Far Away: Star Wars	( 13)
* Resistance Is Futile: Star Trek	( 19)
* Fight the Future: The X Files	(32)
* I Wear The Cheese. It Does Not Wear Me: Buffy The Vampire Slaver	( 40)
* Meanwhile. Back At The Ranch: Web Hosts	(47)
* There Can Be Only One: Fans Vs. Producers	(52)
CHAPTER II. THE BARD OF FANDOM	(55)
* Canon Fodder: Fans As Textual Critics	(57)
* Fandom Acts: Fans As Authors And Artists	( 64)
* Fandom House: Fans As Community	(81)
* Fandom Menace: Fans As Partners In Production	 (92)
* The Fundamental Interconnectedness Of All Things: Fandom And The internet	(105)
CHAPTER III. RULES OF LAW	(109)
* The One With The Guild Makes The Rules: History of Copyright	(113)
* Do Too Many Rights Make A Wrong: The Rights of Copyright	(121)
* Commons Sense: The Public Domain	(131)
* Everything Old Is New Again: Copyright And Digital Technology	 ( 146)
* Summary Judgment	(159)
CHAPTER IV. MY SIDE YOUR SIDE. MY SIDE YOUR SIDE	( 162)
* Who's The Fairest Of Them All: Are Fan Uses Fair Uses	 (166)
* Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act 	(176)
* The Way Back: Prospects For The Public Domain	 (184)
* Never Give Up. Never Surrender: Conclusion	(193)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	(195)
* Books. Articles. And Websites	(195)
* Cases	(207)
* Laws	(209)
==Some Topics Discussed==
* this publication quotes (in full) many cease and desist letters that were sent to fans by TPTB 
* copyright
* fan campaigns and protests
* Star Wars Home Page at UPenn
* the motto and protest movement: Star of Alderaan
* Lucasfilm's mid-1996 attempts to shut down and police fan activities
* TheForce.net website
* the 1996 installment of the Viacom Crackdown, with a focus on an estimated 40 cease and desist letters sent to Star Wars fan websites in December
* the 1996-ish Viacom tactics used against fans of The X-Files, Millennium, and the fan protest campaign called "XFACTOR" (XPhiles for Abolishing Censorship Threatening Our Rights)
* Kevin Atkinson's Viacom as Borg Info Page
* a protest mailing list that became the Online Freedom Federation
* the Warner Bros. attempts to sanction fan activities and fanworks with many 1999 cease and desist letters
* the Slayme website
* the removal of AleXander's Transcripts housed at The Slayer's Fanfic Archive
* a fan defense group specifically for Buffy and Angel fans with a focus on fan fiction: The Buffy and Angel Zine Alliance (BAZA)
* the strong-arm attempts to force the owner of Fandom.tv to sell her domain to the owners of the for-profit company that published "Cinescape" and ran Creation Con
* APAs and letterzines
* message boards and Usenet
* description and history of fanfiction
* some explanations of fannish terms such as: het, gen, slash, Mary Sue, crossovers, alternate universe, round robin
* the challenges of taping shows, different time zones, different machines
* vids and vidshows
* different kinds of cons: MediaWest and Eclecticon
* Fan Fiction Symposium and some description of it
* the internet and the balkanization of fandom
* some discussion of the books and comments by Camille Bacon-Smith, Henry Jenkins, and Constance Penley
* changing norms and ventures as fandom as a community space
* SO MUCH MORE!
==Excerpts==
Category:2002 Academic Commentary