1. F ANFICTION U NIVERSITY SURF-IT Fellow Lauren Lewis Professor Rebecca Black (Professor Bill Tomlinson)

2. W HAT IS F AN F ICTION ? Fan-produced fiction based on an existing corpus Over 1 million posted online Thriving community in several online forums LiveJournal FanFiction.Net Voluntary literary practice among adolescents ELLs Peer edited and reviewed Beta-reading

3. T HE M.O. OF F ANFICTION U NIVERSITY To tap into this existing community and foster these literary practices Matching up authors and betas Writing resources To provide a supportive community where members can work together to hone their craft

4. the current page is highlighted if it is on the main navigation bar L AYOUT AND N AVIGATION

5. R EGISTRATION, L OGIN, AND L OGOUT

6. spec and display flash notice of logging in profile link fanfictions friend listing and control panel U SER H UB AND U SER P ROFILES

7. R ELATIONS W ITHIN THE C OMMUNITY Friendships Users can e-mail each other using the double-blind e-mail system in place Community listing which has full-features searching and browsing

8. display all users with last names starting with the chosen letter C OMMUNITY I NDEX

9. F ANFICTION

10. C OLUMNS Released on a weekly schedule Columns will display in a manner echoing fanfictions Categories Similar to popular columns found in the fanfiction community online

11. A UTHOR -B ETA M ATCHING Soon, the site should match authors and betas User-generated “tags” Fan fictions Beta area of profile (if filled out) A result list will be give to the user showing the betas which match the fan fiction’s tags most closely Contacting option

12. W HAT A BOUT C OPYRIGHT ? ©

13. A UTHORS ’ F EELINGS J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, has expressed being flattered by fan fiction, and has explicitly permitted it with certain caveats Meg Cabot, author of “The Princess Diaries” “says she was delighted to discover that her books had inspired hundreds of stories by fans” Anne Rice has posted on her blog that “I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes”

14. F AIR U SE F OUR -P ART T EST Purpose Nature Amount Market effect

15. R ELEVANT C ASES Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. 1994 “Pretty Woman” case Suntrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co. 2001 Gone With The Wind vs. The Wind Done Gone Higgins v. Detroit Educational Television 1998 Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc., et al v. RDR Books, et al. Harry Potter Lexicon Case

16. I S F AN F ICTION F AIR U SE ? Educational merit Various amounts of borrowing from source material “Transformative”