Is this even possible, though?Thanks for your question. I’d consider mentioning this to people you know and tweeting about it, it might encourage people to stop using these other apps.Ao3 does not have an official app so you might want to double check which you are using. I also noticed that if you have code in your fic like footnotes, it breaks the fic in the pocket app. They can be found at the following links: For that reason, although the OTW can (and does) rely on trademark law to make sure that people don’t make confusing apps that would make people think the OTW or AO3 is associated with them, there’s nothing we can do about apps or services that contain works owned by AO3 users. - Read stories online or offline. Although the OTW uses trademark law to ensure that app makers do not mislead users into thinking those apps are official OTW projects, we do not have any legal right to what you share on AO3. permitting embedding or acting as a portal), and providing information location tools that help users find copyrighted works are permitted activities do not infringe copyright. AO3 scraper / API (unofficial) Resources. Even if these particular apps do not have an official DMCA procedure, copyright owners can always use the contact information listed on the app’s description page to demand that their works be taken down from places they are not authorized.

I created it because I am a fan of fanfiction, and I wanted to help people access the stories they love. It means that when you post fanworks on AO3, you keep your copyrights. They don’t have an app for a number of reasons, the most important being that volunteer coding and support time is best devoted to the site rather than developing and maintaining an app for multiple platforms when the browser works so well.For a variety of reasons, AO3 does not have an official app. i keep seeing people claim their browser refreshes every few seconds? I was as upset as everyone else and honestly just glad that at least the app was removed from most countries as far as I know. There are ios emulators that users can download that allow android and PC users to install and use apple apps on their android devices or PC computers. - Dark or Light Theme - App can be opened from browser when story URL is clicked. Likewise, it is not necessarily infringing or a violation of the ToS for apps to exist that allow users to download works. The account of the Apps creator should be frozen and either a pirtion paid out to every Author effected or we should have a vote on a charity those funds should be given to. Copyright owners, in this case affected fan authors, must do that for their own works. As to whether apps making money from fanfiction undermines the core principle that fanworks are fair use–it probably doesn’t. there are many ways of using AO3 completely free of charge without infringing anybody’s copyright.those fanfiction apps just hope that people are stupid enough to make them money. The app creator’s response to the debacle has left much to be desired.“AO3 is maintained by volunteers who do this shit for free without asking for anything in return, so since they are clearly unconcerned about the profit, any money generated from this app will go to me instead. They are called Harry Potter Fan Fiction, P.J. In contrast, distributing copyrighted works without authorization (which on the Internet typically involves reproducing those works and hosting them) does constitute copyright infringement. She earned a BA in Film & Digital Media from UC Santa Cruz. Personally I’d rather spend time getting such apps shut down than take away the option for non account holders to access my stories. I may have cackled on Friday when I filled out the take down request in Google app store. Unofficial fanfic Reader for the Archive Of Our Own (AO3) web site which has a huge fanfiction library. That means that people cannot copy and/or sell your fanworks without your permission.Fan authors who find their works being distributed on apps without their permission can request that their works be removed. Those who want to read fanfic on their phones or tablets may struggle to do so without an app, but AO3 has frequently introduced new ways to make this easier for readers. They are called Harry Potter Fan Fiction, P.J. Fanfic Pocket Archive Library (Unofficial) app is listed in Books & Reference category of app store. They also charge for access to many fanworks. and one of my preferred settings is viewing the whole fanwork at once, which means that i’m sometimes reading fic of serveral 100k in one single browser window over several days or weeks. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. The first app is Fanfic Pocket Archive Library, which has been available on both the Apple and Google app stores. If this assumption is incorrect, the creators of the app don’t seem too eager to engage on the topic and clear it up. if you don’t like reading with white background, go into your user settings on AO3 and switch to another skin. It's not an app, it's a library that one can use in one's own software :) for instance, what I'm gonna use it for is writing a program that's gonna write spreadsheets for me with how long fics are typically in different fandoms. here you are the one responsible for the fanwork, and you are storing a copy on your phone. Or, short of that, as a class-action request towards the apps to stop violating the TAC of AO3 in the form of DMCA takedown requests?I don’t know if I’m describing my thoughts clearly enough, but, my concern (as a fic author) is that if apps are making money off of fanfiction, then they are violating one of the core points that we use to argue that fanfiction falls under Fair Use?