re Question for those seriously obsessed...

[Dave Monroe]

For those concerned about such things, though, do
remember, there is such a thing as fair use ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html

Meanwhile, my understanding of academic publishing is
that there's likely nigh unto no one actually making
money of much any of it.  With the exception of a
relatively few big names, seminal works, text books,
popular crossovers, one is by and large being paid in
prestige.  Getting read at all is half the battle ...

Me, I by and large buy my own copies of everything, 
but I look at it this way, better that a book be read
than not, and there are those who simply can't or
won't shell out, but sure could use the info, so ...

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yes, a small library's worth of books of Pynchon
> criticism is available, but there's no need to rip
> off somebody's intellectual property, especially not
> some struggling Pynchon scholar's....


 
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