Archive of Our Own

The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization, established by fans in 2007, to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. They believe that fanworks are transformative and that transformative works are legitimate.

They are proactive

and innovative in protecting and defending their work from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. They preserve their fannish economy, values, and creative expression by protecting and nurturing their fellow fans, their work, their commentary, their history, and their identity while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans.

The Archive of Their Own offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks using open-source archiving software.