re Question for those seriously obsessed...

[B C Johnson]

Speaking as a licenced attorney, admitted to the bars of several state and 
federal courts, allow me to confirm the existence of this ancient doctrine 
( look up the Rule in Queen Anne's Case, or the extensive literature of  the 
500 years of jurisprudence following it, or just cut to the Betamax case.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
To: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>; "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: re Question for those seriously obsessed...


> 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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