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Ernest Cline DMCA's Laura Hudson's Ready Player Two review thread on Twitter
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Just imagine how I felt. I had to suffer through the time when a fair number of people actually liked this dreck.
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Of course it can, what kind of two brain-celled bullshit take is this
Just going off the letter of the fair use law. But please keep attacking me.
hey lois remember the time i was DMCA'd by author ernest cline, writer of the Ready Player One series of novels?
Shes not reviewing the book, just shitting on it. Fair Use for reviews only extends to crafting thoughts of the overall quality of the book. This is the equivalent of shitty cinema sins but in twitter form and not akin to say the newyorker reviewing a book or a paper reviewing a movie.
Both her and kline and get fucked.
Both her and kline and get fucked.
I mean I love laughing at the book as much as the next person, I was just doing it yesterday, but these aren't reviews and it isn't really fair use if I'm being objective about it. They can say it's a review but the reality is that it's a person on Twitter posting full paragraphs or even pages with the explicit purpose of laughing at and making fun of it.
Again it's a fun time but in this case I can't really blame him for not wanting that out there, hilariously bad writing quality aside.
Again it's a fun time but in this case I can't really blame him for not wanting that out there, hilariously bad writing quality aside.
This is sort of how I feel as well. Criticism is one thing, but this reads like someone being filled with joy from shitting on someone else's work. "Just you wait, I saved some good stuff for my actual review." It's one thing to fairly judge something for being bad, it's another to point and laugh.
I think he's within his right here. I think she's also within her right to review it (obviously), but I've never seen a book's contents just photographed like that for the sake of a review before.
Look if there's one thing to point and laugh at though it's Reddit the Novelization Part 2
I guess. I don't know, I'm just never a fan of that sort of thing when it comes to """creative""" endeavors.
Never thought I'd defend Ernest friggin Cline but... this is almost certainly the publisher, not him. I don't even know why you'd jump to that conclusion.
creative, eh. this would be like if neil cicierega only made sequels to The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny for 10 years
friend i hate to break it to you but he was always this bad, it's okay. something similar happened to me watching and reading dexter.
There is a tacit agreement between professional reviewers and creatives to be friendly with each other. These twitter threads are not reviews.
You dont see people the week a movie comes out using handy cam footage of the movie to not say anything other than look at how bad this is which is equivalent of this.
The terribleness of the base product does not give people extrajudicial rights to pirate it to show how bad it is.
Yeah I get it, but pirating his trash book doesn't deserve "get fucked" imo.
Its getting taken down, thats enough.
She should just write a "novel" that clumsily references extended paragraphs from his shitty book.
Did the people who own the rights to Voltron or The Delorean or Adventure or anything get any money from him shamelessly using their works in his little venture?
Did the people who own the rights to Voltron or The Delorean or Adventure or anything get any money from him shamelessly using their works in his little venture?
There was a time when it was getting widely praised and recommended, including on GAF at the time. I know because I bought it as one of my first Kindle books on the fervency of those recommendations.
Reading it was a real crazy pills moment, like in Zoolander, the 2001 comedy film written, directed by and starring Ben Stiller.
Her piece on Bloodborne is one of my favorite bits of game writing ever.
In Bloodborne's brutal world, I found myself
I've always wanted to know the difference between perseverance and masochism. This is the game that taught me.boingboing.net
this is a really good piece! Having reread it I'm now I'm even more eager for a PS5 patch.
Paragraph or sentence long excerpts with direct commentary on those excerpts is not even remotely piracy.
And critics have trashed genre fiction in harsher terms than these forever.
It's the way the main character of American Psycho would write if he was a nerd.
There were some weirdos in the original thread saying shit like this. It was apparent they were fans of the book and were mad that they were getting made fun of but they couldn't admit it and went "you should focus your energy on things you like instead of wasting time!"
LOL
Relatedly, here are a few quotes where the hero talks about how he used to be a huge asshole who would silence his critics and how he eventually stopped doing that and grew and became better, just to revisit the "was anything actually learned" theme Excited for these to go down
Relatedly, here are a few quotes where the hero talks about how he used to be a huge asshole who would silence his critics and how he eventually stopped doing that and grew and became better, just to revisit the "was anything actually learned" theme Excited for these to go down
The song 867-5309/Jenny is a song about a guy calling a girl named Jenny.
I think, generally speaking, it's hard for humans to root for a person who gains fame/riches for something that they feel anyone could have done.
That's true. Because that is typical alphabet soup literature there lol
Could you explain how you came to that conclusion though? Like I'm genuinely curious because I'm probably wrong but afaik fair use very explicitly protects reviews and criticism and it doesn't specify "unless it's on Twitter."
You mean that doesn't make you think that multiple sequels to Die Hard were released, also by 20th Century Fox, who is now owned by Disney and their content is now on Disney+?
He's a seemingly talentless guy who makes tons of money doing something I wanna do. Same with streamers
by I, I don't mean myself just you know, Internet people
No it doesn't... Fair use is fair use, it's not limited to reviews, or even parody. Any use can be free use as long as it's transformative and doesn't compete directly with the original item/book/movie.
Ernest Cline is literature's equivalent to Rob Liefield. They should make something together. The epic shittyness of that project would probably warp the fabric of the universe itself.
I didn't make it more than five pages into RPO before I felt like throwing up. I did however read the similarly awful wannabe nerd epic Jpod by Douglas Coupland, which was awful to begin with and then started including Douglas Coupland himself as a supporting character. At least RPO doesn't have Ernest Cline himself turn up to save the main character... right?
I didn't make it more than five pages into RPO before I felt like throwing up. I did however read the similarly awful wannabe nerd epic Jpod by Douglas Coupland, which was awful to begin with and then started including Douglas Coupland himself as a supporting character. At least RPO doesn't have Ernest Cline himself turn up to save the main character... right?
RPO was crap.
But I don't know about Laura Hudson's tweeting though. Isn't she a professional critic? What the heck... is she doing?
Mate Twitter fame has got to get to some people heads unfortunately.
But I don't know about Laura Hudson's tweeting though. Isn't she a professional critic? What the heck... is she doing?
Mate Twitter fame has got to get to some people heads unfortunately.
Trying to prevent criticism with DMCA notices always works well and never, ever backfires horribly.
I'm sure her first thought seeing the passages in the book was "I'm going to get so fucking twitter famous, I can't wait"
Fair Use is one of those balance of multiple factors tests, this might be considered too much reproduction or it might not. Depends a lot on the judge you get.That fall under "Fair Use"
"Criticism and commentary: For example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment would normally be fair use. A book reviewer would be permitted to quote passages from a book in a newspaper column as part of an examination of the book."
17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
www.law.cornell.edu
Well she already has got a Twitter following is what I'm saying.
Quoting whole passages is pretty standard literary criticism. A long review in a magazine or something could easily have several of those exact passages included as block quotes. As long as she's not dumping the text without commentary, or providing a full chapter or something that that it's almost the exact situation fair use was made to protect.