"Harry Potter and the Laboratory of Creativity: Fandom Infringement of Copyrights and a Proposed Exception for Experimental Use" by Rachel Stiegel.

Link leads to abstract with another link that allows you to download pdf copy of paper (or print it out)!

Link posted by rivkat in fandom_lawyers.

I am trying to read some of the legal scholarship on copyright issues and fandom although it's tough going (let me see, yep, I'd definitely say it's HARD to read. I even have to look up words, and I know that I'm missing a helluva lot of the nuances). But it's fascinating!

posted here by telophase with excellent links. The air conditioning is off in my building today (due to construction elsewhere) so it's hot and I am not able to concentrate for long on much which explains the spam-o-rama that seems to be happening here.