Cory Doctorow Abuses Fair Use Copyright Law?
First Clipped on Oct. 14, 2007
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In a nutshell: I quoted, in its entirety, a one-paragraph story that Ms Le Guin sent to the fanzine Ansible, in which she made fun of a book review in Slate that said that Michael Chabon "has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned it." Le Guin's paragraph was a long one, about 500 words, and I pasted the whole thing in, because I thought it was delightful.
Not something you see everyday. Similar to Gandhi getting arrested for beating up a child. Some things just don't happen, and when they do, it's probably not what it appears.
