“Fan or Foe” – On fan fiction and copyright
Professor Mayer-Schönberger has teamed up with Oxford graduate Lena Wong in this article on how recent copyright cases regarding fan fiction highlight an untenable internal tension in how copyright is currently interpreted by copyright holders and some courts, and why a more pragmatic, less dogmatic approach is warranted. The article (Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Lena Wong, Fan or Foe? Fan Fiction, Authorship, and the Fight for Control, 54 IDEA – The Intellectual Property Law Review 1 (2013)) has just been published by IDEA, a well-known US academic journal focused on intellectual property issues.