Community Profile

The Life Without FanLib community was imported from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth on December 30, 2011.

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Life Without FanLib is a community to discuss the privately-held, for-profit fanfiction archive FanLib.com, which operated from February, 2007 - August, 2008. Membership is open to all. All members may post.

With only two weeks warning, FanLib closed its fanfiction archive, and deleted all member-contributed content, on August 4, 2008.

This community will stay open for discussion of the lasting fallout: the fate of FanLib members, the effect of FanLib on future corporate fanfiction ventures, etc.

Around July of 2008, FanLib sold itself (servers and all) to Disney, which re-opened it as Take180. See the disney buyout tag for more information.

This community uses tags, not memories, to categorize content. View all of the tags here.

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Please be considerate of members and use the LJ cut tag for images which are not work safe, or exceed 500px in height or width.

Posts which are not on-topic will be deleted without warning by the moderators.

Acceptable topics include:

• Personal experiences with FanLib, both positive and negative
• Discussions about FanLib
• News about FanLib
• Copyright and fair use as they apply to fanfiction
• Parodies and humor based on FanLib. Pink dude <3 Blue guy!

Not acceptable:

• Introductory posts with no other content.

If you are a former FanLib member promoting a community for other ex members, an introductory post is allowed. The largest known community for ex members is Fan Nation.

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They represent a massive group of literate, well-educated women who spend an incredible amount of time online.
— Chris Williams, FanLib CEO, July 2006

I'm puzzled as to why exactly you think this will make money.
— miera_c, March 2007

Every so often, as if acting out some formulaic movie plot, a bunch of big-city suits get lost in the wilderness of the Internet, and bad things happen.
— valleywag.com, May 2007

I just realized that Dr. Jenkins is gonna get a book outta this. :-)
— tejas, May 2007