Kat, that's appalling. The financial fuckovers you've had to deal with in the past twelve months are insane.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 14, 2008 8:34:41 pm PDT #1801 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Strega - Apr 14, 2008 9:09:55 pm PDT #1802 of 10001
I read a few arguments about how if she wins it will have a chilling effect on academic works, but the argument seems thin.
Well, the site is here. I assume it started as a pure lexicon, but at this point it's more of an encylopedia, with a timeline of events, lists of places, essays on lord knows what. So it depends on what exactly is in the book, but it does seem like if she wins, it could dramatically change what is considered fair use.
Trudy Booth - Apr 14, 2008 9:54:54 pm PDT #1803 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'm scared of the chinese buses, which are probably the best deal all around. Except when they are asshats.
I've taken them to Boston, DC, and Connecticut. They've been late about half the time, but I never felt unsafe.
billytea - Apr 14, 2008 10:12:03 pm PDT #1804 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I've taken them to Boston, DC, and Connecticut.
Toting a clandestine canine!
Shir - Apr 14, 2008 10:16:52 pm PDT #1805 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I'm sorry, Kat. I hate it when life's acting all lifey on you.
Timelies. It's morning here, and Danah Boyd reminds me why I love reading her blog.
Also, I'm having a good music morning, with a lot of good emails and lack of work productivity. Probably just balance the extremely emotionally painful meeting I'll have tonight, with the current board of a non-profit Buffy organization I was involved with and helped to established between 2004-2007, and now, because they can't fucking function, they think about closing it.
I really don't want to think about it now. I'm going to return and enjoy my morning, as long as it will last.
Trudy Booth - Apr 14, 2008 10:40:18 pm PDT #1806 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Toting a clandestine canine!
shhhhhh
tommyrot - Apr 15, 2008 2:26:13 am PDT #1807 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Aww fuck.
Cops kill cougar on North Side
Couldn't they have tranqued it? Anyway, the cougar was in Chicago, 2.4 miles from my apartment....
Shir - Apr 15, 2008 3:12:32 am PDT #1808 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
So. Tired.
Steph L. - Apr 15, 2008 3:19:55 am PDT #1809 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Cops kill cougar on North Side
See, when I first read this, I immediately thought, "Just because a 60-year-old-woman was hitting on a 25-year-old is no reason to kill her!'
Jessica - Apr 15, 2008 3:23:46 am PDT #1810 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've taken Amtrak up and down the East coast (well, between DC and NYC) at least four or five times a year for the past five years, and only once been more than half an hour late.
Wow. I'd say you've been very lucky in that case, as my trains seem to routinely run about an hour late. (Hence my preference for driving - even if I wind up stuck on the Beltway for an hour, if I'm driving I at least feel some sense of control over the situation.)
So it depends on what exactly is in the book, but it does seem like if she wins, it could dramatically change what is considered fair use.
The case is interesting to me personally because I have a friend who's just published the first of three HP trivia quiz books she's written (IIRC the second and third are coming out this summer), and if the case goes badly for the Lexicon people, she (among many many others) could be next.