text: shaharazade, chimpy
  I checked with the site manager.
  by Deep Harm on Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 10:19:35 AM PST
  Cassandra Waites, Wee Mama
  For the purposes of discussing a fleeting sitewide change, a low-resolution screen capture is pretty clearly fair use. And I've no doubt that the authors are happy to see their message repeated, anyway.
  But, like an immune system deprived of actual pathogens, the legal departments of the big content generators and distributors might fire off spurious complaints at anything that looks duplicated. Like trying to get us shut down as a liberal den of malcontents, rife with properly attributed brief quotations. That's kinda why the Gizmodo one tickles me so much, like sticking their chin out and daring the Fox lawyers to take a swing.
  The blackout has already provoked some pretty awful responses:
  (via Minyanville, linked and quoted without permission)
  And not wanting to miss out on all the fun, RIAA senior vice president Jonathan Lamy chimed in on the Wikipedia blackout. "After Wikipedia blackrout [sp], somewhere, a student today is doing original research and getting his/her facts straight. Perish the thought." ...
  by chimpy on Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 01:26:42 PM PST
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