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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 “Clich\u00e9” flowing down the text.<\/p>\n
For small works, it should work. \u00a0It gets harder to justify for longer works, but fine. \u00a0When I need to graph the trajectory of Finnegan’s Wake, I’m in trouble.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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