Excelsior the book

$1 gets you all of the "I despair for humanity" posts.
$1 gets you all of the "Matos probably thinks this" posts.
$1 gets you all of the "OH! MY POOR EYES!" posts.
$1.99 gets you the photo with the Teddy bear.
A penny for your thoughts.

(x-post)

"(if anybody's interested, I really will finish this tomorrow, will probably both post it here & to LPTJ - warning, it'll probably also include why "The World's Greatest" is also quite triffic)

-- J0hn Darn1elle, June 15th, 2003."

I really, really don't want to get into a legality discussion. Let me make that clear up front. It's mostly because my understanding of copyright law is very case-specific, in the "please can you call legal and ask them before you make me change this" sense of "case" and very much not in the "Sparkwood vs Twenty-One" sense of "case." Slightly more than half of what I've published has sparked a fair use discussion with editorial; I think I know less about it now than I did before I ever dealt with it.

It's partly because one of the things I've been told in times like that is that the relevant rulings tend not to be as clear as either side would like, once you try to generalize away from the specifics of a prior case.

I don't like talking out of my hat, and I don't like huge discussions where hats are all anyone has to talk out of, which is the kind of thing "the internet and fair use" easily leads to.

But with all that in mind -- in other words, if you disagree, all I'm going to do is say "Okay" -- my short answer is that I think just about anything can be fudged at least a little, when it comes to copyright law.

i wonder what will happen the next time Mark does this

(Momus-as-J0hn: 'Momus, you're skating on very thin ice at this point. What are you going to make me say here?')

Also, since I have copyright over my posts please remove any of mine before continuing with this scheme. k thx bye

There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done.
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It’s easy.

Nothing you can make that can’t be made.
No one you can save that can’t be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It’s easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

Nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.
It’s easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

All you need is love (all together, now!)
All you need is love. (everybody!)
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need (love is all you need).

Yee-hai!
Oh yeah!
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.

Of course.

I wonder which shit he thinks he is copping.

probably ILX.

The difference lies in the sale of the repackaged material. Nobody could successfully argue that photoshopping a giant penis onto Crudders' head isn't fair use. Embedding images is a grey area, as the content itself is still being supplied by the original publisher.

Republishing material unchanged without consent (as is the case here) is obviously not simply 'fair use'.

Just the one spike?