OT: be careful quoting Faulkner

[Joel S. Berson]

Doesn't commercial use come under different rules?

Joel

At 11/2/2012 12:24 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>The TechDirt website has an article about another lawsuit filed by the
>litigious Faulkner estate.
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>Faulkner Estate Keeps Suing: Sues Washington Post Over Ad That Quoted One
>Sentence
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>by Mike Masnick on Wed, Oct 31st 2012
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>http://bit.ly/TfInHE
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>The second lawsuit, filed Friday, was against the Washington Post and
>defense contractor giant Northrop Grumman. Why? Because Northrop Grumman
>ran an ad in the Washington Post that quoted (with attribution) a single
>sentence from a Harper's article that Faulkner once wrote.
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>The ad, which ran on July 4th, 2011, included: "We must be free not because
>we claim freedom, but because we practice it. -- William Faulkner." It had
>a giant image of an American flag and some more text celebrating July 4th.
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>[End excerpt]
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>On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > Subject:      Re: OT: be careful quoting Faulkner
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> > At 10/26/2012 05:00 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> > >If there have been any lawsuits against quotation references recently
> > >I have not heard about them. Perhaps a lawsuit asking for damages due
> > >to torturous interference with the truth (and even plausibility) might
> > >succeed against one of the big online databases of misquotes.
> > >
> > >(I know the torturous is an eggcorn for tortious.)
> >
> > As Faulkner wrote, in an ode of self-praise,
> >
> > Come crown my brow with leaves of myrtle,
> > I know the tortoise is a turtle,
> > Come carve my name in stone immortal,
> > I know the turtoise is a tortle.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > P.S.  I expect the Literary Estates of both Faulkner and Nash to be
> > soon filing against me.
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