{"id":227565,"date":"2010-01-25T08:51:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100122\/1622527879.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-25T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:51:29","slug":"summit-entertainment-shuts-down-twilight-fanzine-for-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227565","title":{"rendered":"Summit Entertainment Shuts Down Twilight Fanzine For Infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/profile.php?u=rosemwelch\">Rose M. Welch<\/a> points us to the news that Summit Entertainment has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thresq.com\/2010\/01\/twilight-summit.html\" >won an injunction against the makers of a <i>Twilight<\/i> fanzine<\/a>, claiming that the zine was not for journalistic purposes.  A journalist would have a strong free speech claim on the right to make use of these photos (which were found on the &#8220;press&#8221; page for the movie itself), but Summit claims that the zine is not journalism, but a business.  To be fair, it is true that the creators of the zine is a company that sells trading cards, but does that mean that a fanzine is suddenly no longer protected by the First Amendment?  In an age when who is and who is not a journalist has become a lot more complicated, it seems like a pretty questionable decision to put an injunction on a publisher just because they have a good business model.  Separately, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that Summit is being pretty ridiculous here in shutting down a zine for fans.  Stop trying to punish fans and focus on giving them what they want.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100122\/1622527879.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100122\/1622527879.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100122\/1622527879&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=15bd459d93058f706ab976ff6482a83c&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=15bd459d93058f706ab976ff6482a83c&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=hpz8lTv_w8A:PgBaRQjHEfw:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=hpz8lTv_w8A:PgBaRQjHEfw:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=hpz8lTv_w8A:PgBaRQjHEfw:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/hpz8lTv_w8A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose M. Welch points us to the news that Summit Entertainment has won an injunction against the makers of a Twilight fanzine, claiming that the zine was not for journalistic purposes. A journalist would have a strong free speech claim on the right to make use of these photos (which were found on the &#8220;press&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}