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The Bluestocking Guide has a new literary forum for discussing books!!! If you get a chance, mosey over there, grab a latte, and register.
Introducing: Cafe Blue
One of my best friends in the HP world (and just the world) got some kudos yesterday from a blogger who called one of her essays on HPN "Exceptional," and of course I think it is well-deserved praise. This was one of the first essays after DH to point out that JKR's opinionated statements about her books are not the last word.
Reprint of Subtle Science's Essay: JKR as Critic ~ The Man is Nothing.
My friend Serpentine sent me this link about Banned Books and why people objected to them. There are interesting tidbits about each book, such as the fact that Catch-22 has never been banned for it's anti-war message, but for the use of the word "whore."
Book Ramblings: 25 Classic Books that have been banned
Speaking of Classic Books, did you hear about J. D. Salinger, the reclusive author who wrote Catcher in the Rye? He is throwing a lawsuit at someone who wrote an unauthorized sequal called 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. This time Holden Caufield breaks out of a nursing home and goes wandering, if you can believe that. *eyeroll* Salinger still holds the copyright, and the original is not in the public domain.
J. D. Salinger Sues to Block Sequal
And there's a new book coming out by Canadian Joe Clark:
The Cranky Copyright Book
Now why is Joe so "Cranky"? He feels the real truth about copyright has not been written, and people are being left out of the discussion in favor of a few voices. I think he could actually give DavidEnglish a run for his money in bashing Lawrence Lessig from the Stanford Fair Use project.
What if everything you knew about copyright was wrong?
Well, it isn’t. And I’m not here to tell you it is. But I do want to break you out of the spell you’ve been under since Larry Lessig became your secular god.
There really is a way to look at copyright that is not a form of apologia for dying “content” industries, like the music business and Hollywood studios. This new way also has very little to do with “free culture,” Creative Commons, and the teachings of gurus like Lessig and Michael Geist.
Where do either of those extremes leave the individual creator? The lone writer, the lone musician, the lone photographer, the lone designer? So far, the answer has been “forgotten and shunned.”
Whoa ~ ticked off much, Mr. Clark? Your title seems very appropriate, though. There's more crankiness HERE because people are already saying that Joe Clark doesn't have the credentials to write a book about copyright in the first place. But Clark is involved in a class action suit in Canada as a freelance journalist going up against some corporate news organizations that is supposed to be settled on June 16 - you can read about it HERE. Stay tuned - we'll see if the book lives up to the hype.