From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 10:55:38 MDT
Who gets sued?
Suppose you got an email one day saying 'Hello There. We're collecting reviews
of this book' [some new Jack Ryan thriller perhaps] 'We especially need a
review of the 4th paragraph on page 342. We'll be collecting reviews on this
site http://...'
So, making use of fair use laws, you write a review:
'In this new thriller, what most impressed me was this paragraph
[ here you quote paragraph 4 on page 342 ]
Which I thought was real cool'
Just by concidence, the review aggregration site lists the reviews in order of
paragraphs within pages.
Who does the publisher sue?
The review aggregation site? They're not serving any part of the book.
Each individual reviewer? For what, making a brief quotation in a review of a
book?
Some idiot like myself, who is only emailing a thought experiment to a bunch
of brainy folks on a discussion list?
The people that sent out the email requesting a review of a specific paragraph
on a specific page? They're just operating a mail forwarding service. They're
just responding to what their clients send them, request records like 'need
review|book xxxxx|page xxxx|para xxxx' which come in in all sorts of jumbled
orders.
I figure, there must be somebody to sue.
But, IANAL.
Thanks, -Mike
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