{"id":1122,"date":"2019-04-04T23:09:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T03:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2019-04-04T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T03:09:04","slug":"digital-wills-and-communal-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/2019\/04\/04\/digital-wills-and-communal-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Wills and Communal Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

In some ways, control of one\u2019s image after death seems linked to the concept of a digital will. \u00a0A few weeks ago a friend brought to my attention the concept of a \u201cFannish Next-of-Kin,\u201d a term dubbed by the Organization of Transformative Works in regards to their fanfiction archive. The FNOK can assume control of the deceased\u2019s account after their death and execute whatever the deceased asked them to do, such as removing the user\u2019s stories, orphaning them (removing the author\u2019s name but leaving the stories up), or publishing the remainder of unfinished works. Like a person\u2019s image, this form of digital will concerns the future of a profile, a representation of someone\u2019s self. <\/span><\/p>\n

Fanworks are more closely tied to the community in which they were created than a traditionally published work is–fanfiction writers and artists communicate with each other and with their audience more directly. Requested works especially belong, in a way, to the community–members of a fandom bounce ideas off of each other, prompt each other, and spin off other people\u2019s works. Taking down someone\u2019s fanfiction after their death erases the community effort. On the other hand, if a person doesn\u2019t want their family to find their works, the community should be understanding of the deceased\u2019s wishes. <\/span><\/p>\n

When an actor or model participates in the creation of a piece, they are part of a community. We cannot claim full ownership of our image–photographers and editors have approximately equal investment in the creation of the work. But a digital will, which requires the subject to define how they see the future of their work, can be negotiated while the subject is still alive and involve the other contributors. We can\u2019t make a blanket rule because not everyone has the same views on how they want their work treated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In some ways, control of one\u2019s image after death seems linked to the concept of a digital will. \u00a0A few weeks ago a friend brought to my attention the concept of a \u201cFannish Next-of-Kin,\u201d a term dubbed by the Organization of Transformative Works in regards to their fanfiction archive. The FNOK can assume control of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-e"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paB9Ga-i6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}