Commercial transformative works can definitely be fair use and legitimate; however, this is outside of the OTW’s mission. Our focus is on defending non-commercial works and their creators. We want to support creators who share their fanworks freely as part of the fannish gift economy who are motivated to be part of a community, connected with other fans, celebrating the media they enjoy. This has always been and remains part of our mission statement.

We are against the commercialization of fanworks without their authors’ consent.