OT: Fandom.com (was Re: More casting news - Ginny Weasley etc.)

[Alex Corvus]

No: HPFGUIDX 12240

Finally catching up on my digests and I saw this:

Keith wrote:
>I'm posting that info on the Fandom board, hope that's OK.

You mean Fandom.com board, right?

This is not an idle distinction. Fandom Inc. is trying to trademark the word
Fandom as we speak, they've sent out nasty legal letters to the webmaster of
fandom.tv trying to intimidate her into giving up her domain name, and there's
a boycott of Fandom.com going on over their tactics. I'm not going to let them
try to hijack my community without saying something about it. They are not the
sum-total of "Fandom."

Despite participating in the boycott, I know there's an HP fandomain at F.com,
so this affects this fandom directly. Are people aware of the boycott that's
going on and the push to distinguish F.com and F,Inc from the more general
term "Fandom?"

Alexa,
getting all Hermione-ish. Line up at the right for your SPEW buttons.


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