How has the culture of fandom changed in the last two decades, and how does Les Mis fandom fit into that history? We’ll talk about the copyright concerns and fair use activism that have shaped the modern infrastructure of fandom, and how those do and don’t apply in a fandom based half on a public domain text and half on a blockbuster stage show. And we will probably digress–since what would a Les Mis con be without digressions–into reminiscence of long-past phases of fandom, as the panelists have all been here long enough to have traversed the revolutionary apocalypse many times.