10 Facts About Fan labor

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Fan labor called Fanworks are the creative activities engaged in by fans, primarily those of various media properties or musical groups.

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Fan labor art is artwork based on a character, costume, item, or story that was created by someone other than the artist.

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Fan labor film is a film or video inspired by a media source, created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators.

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Fan labor films vary in length from short faux-teaser trailers for non-existent motion pictures to ultra-rare full-length motion pictures.

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Fan labor art is typically involved in the form of a custom designed label.

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Gift can be surplus labor made in excess of the labor necessary from the worker, created not for other fans but rather to compel the original media property to notice their indebtedness and do something for the fans in return.

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From an economic anthropology viewpoint, the products of fan labor are a form of cultural wealth, valuable for their ability to interrelate the fan works, the fan-creators, and the original media property itself through conversation and fan work exchanges.

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From another economic anthropology perspective, fan creative practices are labor that is done in a relatively routine way and that helps to maintain a connection to the media property itself.

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Fan labor works are valued as fandom products, and they support the fan creator's desire to be valued by peers.

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Fan labor art is one exception, in that artists have traditionally sold their works in public at conventions and other fan gatherings, as well as on their own web sites.

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