The most bizarre Disney pornography every dredged up from the sordid minds of fans hits YouTube, with soundtracks packed with clips of 80's pop songs.
This takes six months for everyone to get bored of, except for a few devout trolls who have chosen one two-minute interval as the new Rickroll and try to inflict it on everyone.
A small student-run film group starts making a *good* miniseries version of the Sandman graphic novels. Gaiman works as a consultant.
Another small, student-run film group starts making a movie version of the first Anita Blake novel. Hamilton curses them profusely in her blog. They ignore her, and sell copies of her books at the opening of the movie, which she hates them for.
A fangroup releases an MST3K version of each of the Harry Potter movies.
Another one does the same to Lord of the Rings. They sell it in a boxed set with copies of
The Very Secret Diaries.
Six thousand slash fanfic novels about Star Trek are released. Some of them are amazingly good.
Associated Press files 1200 lawsuits in January alone, alleging "EULA contract violations." Everyone's pretty sure nothing will come of any of them (they're obviously just attempts to enforce nonexistent copyrights), but a lot of lawyers are gonna be very busy for a while.