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> This material may be protected by copyright. Posting a longish excerpt to give people a flavour of the book is covered by fair use. Otherwise literary critic
by igravious 10y ago
> This material may be protected by copyright.
Posting a longish excerpt to give people a flavour of the book is covered by fair use. Otherwise literary criticism would grind to a halt.
And I don't see why you say it _may_ be copyrighted, it was only written in 2004 therefore it's undoubtedly copyrighted. But so what, it's perfectly fine to post snippets without the author's explicit permission. I suspect 99.99% of authors would give you their eternal blessing for disseminating and praising their work.
> I'd highly recommend reading it, it's a great book.
A dozen times this.
- citruspi 10y ago> Posting a longish excerpt to give people a flavour of the book is covered by fair use. Otherwise literary criticism would grind to a halt. > And I don't see why you say it _may_ be copyrighted, it was only written in 2004 therefore it's undoubtedly copyrighted. But so what, it's perfectly fine to post snippets without the author's explicit permission. I suspect 99.99% of authors would give you their eternal blessing for disseminating and praising their work. When I selected and copied the selections from iBooks, the "Excerpt From:..." and "Check out this book..." lines automatically appeared in my clipboard along with the selections. I figured I'd leave 'em there instead of deleting them. But thank you for the fair use information, I'll keep that in mind in the future.
- igravious 10y agoGreat. I've never used iBooks so I don't know how it functions.