In message 004701c0a359$e13d9460$2e8a590c@dshilling, Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net writes
Julia said:
Just to settle this one by reference to external factors - Tanith Lee has stated in an interview that she saw Avon as walking death wish. (No, I don't have access to the interview at the moment - I did transcribe it a few years ago, but I have enough respect for copyright not to put it up for public access and I don't have access to my files at the moment.)
As for respect for copyrights--US copyright law permits "fair use," and the very first examples given are "criticism, comment, news reporting." Non-commercial use of a reasonable portion of a copyrighted work in a context like this would therefore almost certainly be considered a non- infringing fair use.
Yup, but putting up the entire interview wouldn't be. I don't currently have access to my own copy, and I've never put the complete text in a public place, including this list, so I can't go and pull it off from anywhere on the net. Maybe one of the Citizens has a copy on file and can find the relevant quote. I *did* post it to The Other List, as I felt that posting it to an unarchived, closed list that was busy deconstructing Tanith Lee scripts at the time constituted fair use.