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Fan Films And Fanworks In The Age Of Social Media: How Copyright Owners Are Relying On Private Ordering To Avoid Angering Fans, Kagen Despain
Fan Films And Fanworks In The Age Of Social Media: How Copyright Owners Are Relying On Private Ordering To Avoid Angering Fans, Kagen Despain
BYU Law Review
Fandoms active in creating “fanworks” are increasingly able to leverage social media to coordinate and respond to owners of large media franchises who attempt to limit the creation and distribution of fan films. The resulting friction between these groups can be more efficiently addressed through private ordering rather than through formal legal reform.
Reputation Systems Bias In The Platform Workplace, E. Gary Spitko
Reputation Systems Bias In The Platform Workplace, E. Gary Spitko
BYU Law Review
Online reputation systems enable the providers and consumers of a product or service to rate one another and allow others to rely upon those reputation scores in deciding whether to engage with a particular provider or consumer. Reputation systems are an intrinsic feature of the platform workplace, in which a platform operator, such as Uber or TaskRabbit, intermediates between the provider of a service and the consumer of that service. Operators typically rely upon consumer ratings of providers in rewarding and penalizing providers. Thus, these reputation systems allow an operator to achieve enormous scale while maintaining quality control and user …