Writing date move
We’re trying out a new location this Thursday 28 January. Get in touch if you want to join us. If it works out, we’ll post about it next week.
Nine Worlds 2016 Venue!
We’ll be at the Novotel London West in Hammersmith, 12-14 August 2016.
The venue announcement is here.
As we announced in 2015, Kate and Tanya have bowed out from running fanfic content. But transformative works are at the heart of Nine Worlds, and there will be plenty for you to get involved in and attend in 2016. If you’d like to be involved in running content, you can read about the new content structure and sign up here. For more general volunteering, email volunteer@nineworlds.co.uk to establish contact.
Weekly writing dates in London
Nine Worlds Fanfic hosts a weekly writing date in London and on-line, every Thursday from 5-7.30pm. We welcome any type of writing, including fanfic, original fic, reviews, Nine Worlds track content, day job writing, and this article! The London meetup happens at Starbucks on Minories (here), but you can take part from wherever you happen to be. Just spend a block of time writing on any Thursday evening (finishing at 7.30pm, when the London group gets kicked out of Starbucks), and email your word count to fanfic@nineworlds.co.uk to be included. Chat is minimal at the Starbucks location, but there’s a friendly atmosphere. Writing dates are hosted by River (Right), and Untitled the Penguin:
By the time of the 2015 convention, we had written more than 157,000 words at writing dates. What a novel that would make!
Contact fanfic@nineworlds.co.uk with any queries, and follow @9WorldsFanfic on Twitter for updates and notices.
Nine Worlds Fanfic programme highlights
We’ve picked out one programme item per day, especially for the harried Nine Worlds fan who wants to attend All The Things. All these are in Room 12:
Friday 18.45 Our traditional Nine Things item. Nine fast-paced talks on aspects and examples of AUs. Speakers race against Bruce the singing, dancing robot timer to complete their talks in their allotted seven minutes.
Saturday 20.30 Writing and Breaking Fanfic Tropes. A workshop with Signe_Chan. Construct and deconstruct your own favourite trope!
Sunday 18.45: Wind down at the Blanket Fort Construction Workshop. And if you’re around on Thursday evening we could use some help rehearsing it, from around 7pm.
The Nine Worlds 2015 Schedule is up!
If you don’t have a ticket yet, what are you waiting for? Buy tickets at the website!
Call for Recs!
It’s that time of year again, when Nine Worlds looms shinily on the horizon and we look for recs for short, family-friendly fics which we can (with permission) print out for people to read at the con. Please send us links to your favourite <2000-word fics, either here or via email (fanfic at nineworlds.co.uk) -- and watch this space for news of our sparkly, AU-tropic track!
Identity at Nine Worlds 2015
The track policy on identity for fanficcers is here: http://9worlds-fanfic.dreamwidth.org/
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Group trip to Age of Ultron!
All welcome. 7.30pm showing, Cineworld West India Quay, London on Thursday 23 April. 2D showing for better accessibility and fewer headaches. Please book your own seats. Availability is currently good, but be quick to be sure of joining us. Some of us are booked in the back row of starred seats.
There are still some seats available for this if you’d like to join us.
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UPDATE BELOW:
We’ve been getting pings and @’s all morning about ebooks-tree.com who seem to be scraping/taking stories off of AO3 and hosting them as PDFs and mobi downloads on their site; the site seems to be pulling from UrBookLibrary as well. They’re not reading your “do not copy/duplicate” notes on your AO3 fic; their bots are pulling things directly from AO3, without AO3′s authorization or assent. It looks like they are pulling from Wattpad too, again without authorization or assent.
While the Ebooks-Tree DMCA page seems to imply that you need a lawyer or other “authorized person” to submit a takedown notice, you don’t; you can do it yourself.
As we’ve posted before, fanfic writers hold copyright in their stories, although not in lines/quotes from the works they’ve been inspired by, and because of that, fanfic writers can submit DMCA takedown notices, or have someone do it on their behalf. While this post isn’t legal advice (none of our posts on FYC are), you might want to consider using this template (well, the bolded bits) in telling ebooks-tree to take down your content:
Your Name and/or Pseudonym as an e-signature (or the name of the person you’ve authorized to submit this request, with a slash before it and after it): Link(s) to the unauthorized works (link to the pdf, the mobi and the page hosting all of it): Link(s) to an authorized version of your work (whether on AO3, tumblr, LJ or somewhere else): An email address of the submitter (include it again even if it’s in the header): This statement: I have good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. This statement: The information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
That’s it - that’s all they need to know - you can submit all the info via http://www.ebooks-tree.com/info.php?contacts with DMCA Complaint in the subject; you may wish to submit the same content to Google via this page, or to BING via this page.
ETA: If you try to read your own fics, they require you to sign up via a site called http://www.lazygame.net/ (lazygamenet on Twitter, corporate name is KH Media LLC of Delaware, their phone number is listed as the contact number for a bunch of different companies) and give your credit card info; we think that’s probably a very bad idea. You can send the same DMCA info to them at support@lazygame.net but it’s unclear whether they have the ability to remove anything from the ebooks-tree site. We called LazyGame directly and they said they are not affiliated with ebooks-tree but they are affiliated with TzarMedia, which seems to be some sort of back-end for ebooks-tree. Fwiw, TzarMedia isn’t doing well on the whole “trustworthy site” thing.
TzarMedia claims that “All TzarMedia content is licensed and legal for distribution and use.” We wonder what the FTC would say about that kind of false advertising.
This is way bigger than someone using a bot to pull fics; this is infringement in so many different ways.
(Fwiw, even though ebooks-tree claims that they comply with the Copyright Act, they aren’t compliant with the DMCA Safe Harbor rules, as they aren’t listed on the copyright.gov list of agents.)
You can also submit a complaint about ebooks-tree to CloudFlare, who hosts the site. Their DMCA page is at https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form - as a matter of law you do not need to include the legal name of the copyright claimant/the fanfic writer, but you should include the pseudonym that the fic was posted under if you don’t want to include a legal name or address.
General Nine Worlds Meetup in London - Sunday 12 April
Details here. Hope to see you there.
Group trip to Age of Ultron!
All welcome. 7.30pm showing, Cineworld West India Quay, London on Thursday 23 April. 2D showing for better accessibility and fewer headaches. Please book your own seats. Availability is currently good, but be quick to be sure of joining us. Some of us are booked in the back row of starred seats.
Thank you! Feedback and suggestions
Thanks so much to everyone who attended and presented and participated in the 2014 convention, and especially the fanfic track. It was a great weekend, and you made it so. We're still recovering, but our thoughts are already turning to next year, and how we can do things better.
There's a post up on our Dreamwidth here asking for feedback on the track in 2014, and for any 2015 suggestions. If you'd like to leave either of these, please do it on that post (anon commenting allowed), or email us at fanfic@nineworlds.co.uk. Tumblr isn't really conducive to saving anything in a way we can find at a later date.
Many thanks!
PS: Prices for Nine Worlds 2015 rise at the end of August. Get the super early rate here!
Starting to catch up
Well, that was a con. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, and that you've managed to get some sleep!
We promised to put up the recs from the Nine Fanwork Recs item, and we have! They're here.
We've also posted our Loncon3 schedule (because we are ludicrously ambitious with our plans) here. We hope to see you there.
There's more to come in terms of recs and write-ups, but probably not until after Loncon.
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