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• On September 20, 2008, veteran Star Trek fan Nancy Kippax died from complications from an extended illness.She was an early member of the fandom, a founding member of Clippercon, and a fanzine editor. [1][2]
• On September 16, 2008, FanFiction.net reinstated their abuse email address and added an email for categories and character listings. [3]
• On September 16, 2008, Dr. Phillip Atcliffe, Ph.D., of Salford University's School of Computing, Science and Engineering, was interviewed by multiple media sources - including local Manchester BBC Television and BBC Radio, and local ITV/Granada television - on the subject: "Could The Thunderbirds Really Fly?" The interviews were an extension of talks he gives at schools and science fiction conventions. [4][5]
• On September 8, 2008, the courts ruled in favor of JK Rowling and Warner Brothers in the case they brought against the Harry Potter Lexicon and Steve Van Der Ark. [6]
• In late August 2008, early September 2008, extensive spoilers for the CSI premiere began to circlate on the Internet. [7][8]
• In late August 2008, AMC started asking twitter to remove role playing accounts on the service for characters fom Mad Men. [9]
• In August 2008, there was a fan related battle regarding the movie, the Watchmen. [10]
• In August 2008, a blogger was jailed for leaking nine Guns N Roses songs. [11]
• In August 2008, "Judge Rules That Content Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns". [12]
• In August 2008, former FanLib users had created several commuities. Check them out on FanFiction.Net, LiveJournal and InvisionFree.

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October 12

• Between May of 1997 and October of 2002, through the Sword and the Staff, nearly $400,000 USD was donated by Xena fans to various charities. ( Web.Studies, edited by David Gauntlett, Ross Horsley, pg 90 )
• Cassie and rhysenn saw its volume peak in October of 2000.
• In October 2001, JayKay proposed the idea for the Snape Slash Fleet on the snapeslash mailing list. (White_Serpent: [13])
• In October 2001, JayKay released the story "Too Wise to Woo Peaceably." [14]
• Around October 2002, LittleOni plagiarized two Tenchi Muyo authors, Diane Long and Hospitaller. LittleOni also plagiarized a Sailor Moon story. [15]
• On October 12, 2002, the Xenafan fiction mailing list die_hard_xena_fan was founded. [16]
• On August 12, 2002, the LiveJournal community, badfic, was founded. By October of 2003, the community would be discussing Digimon fics.
• Aja used to be a friend of Cassandra Claire but the friendship ended acrimoniously in October 2003.
• In October 2004, fandom_wank debated the issue of community moderation. (fandomquibbler)
• Lil_Princess was a Good Charlotte sock puppet fan fiction writer on FanDomination.Net. This sock puppet, creator unknown, was active in the period between October and November of 2004 and had a point when she created a massive fannish incident.

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