Yes, I read about the SFWA furore when it happened. I thought Andrew Burt a) was plainly out of order b) demonstrated a pretty fair degree of ignorance both of copyright law and web technology c) scored an amazingly stupid own goal on the score of marketing and publicity.
I think you are right that Corey Doctorow is pretty shrewd when it comes to web marketing. For that kind of reason, I would have hoped for a better grasp of copyright law on his part.
"We're a big corporation, so let's just use it, and let the little punk sue us if he's perturbed."
I have come up against that attitude a couple of times myself. Both times my agent has screwed a useful sum of money out of the offenders.
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Date: December 13th, 2007 04:24 pm (UTC)I think you are right that Corey Doctorow is pretty shrewd when it comes to web marketing. For that kind of reason, I would have hoped for a better grasp of copyright law on his part.
"We're a big corporation, so let's just use it, and let the little punk sue us if he's perturbed."
I have come up against that attitude a couple of times myself. Both times my agent has screwed a useful sum of money out of the offenders.