Not just yet, but soon. I ran across a blog post which could use some correction. I do not see a way to comment at the blog, however, so I figured I would do so over here. But then I would need to bring over the graphic, which is no sweat–I’ll give attribution and link to the source, and if there is an objection, take it down. But I would also need to grab most or all of the text from that short post. At that point, with the graphic and the text, I am just re-publishing another person’s work, and while I am not courtroom-secure in my observation of copyrights, I do try to stay where I should in that phase space.
More on that later. Meanwhile, short of Fisking the orignal article, I figured out a way to do commentary on an entire (short) work while maintaining something like a fair use stance. Recall that you don’t get to claim fair use just because you say “I claim Fair Use!”. In order to use anything more than a snippet, you must be commenting not on the topic, but on that presentation of the topic.
So I can get a screen grab, or even the text itself, and mark it up in situ, but not just with word-processing tools. Graphs for values such as “Marxism” or “Cliché” flowing down the text.
For small works, it should work. It gets harder to justify for longer works, but fine. When I need to graph the trajectory of Finnegan’s Wake, I’m in trouble.
