Excelsior the book

There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done.
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It’s easy.

Nothing you can make that can’t be made.
No one you can save that can’t be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It’s easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

Nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.
It’s easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

All you need is love (all together, now!)
All you need is love. (everybody!)
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need (love is all you need).

Yee-hai!
Oh yeah!
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.

Of course.

I wonder which shit he thinks he is copping.

probably ILX.

The difference lies in the sale of the repackaged material. Nobody could successfully argue that photoshopping a giant penis onto Crudders' head isn't fair use. Embedding images is a grey area, as the content itself is still being supplied by the original publisher.

Republishing material unchanged without consent (as is the case here) is obviously not simply 'fair use'.

Just the one spike?

SAIL! SAIL! SAIL!

Andrew, this has been covered, and while I don't defend the book, that's positively ridiculous. They'd be making money from the sale of binding glue, labor, and paper.

You can disagree, and you do, but the bullshit like "I don't see how it could be any more clear" is exactly why I started posting: because we had a gaggle of geese running around thinking everyone saw it in crystal-clear terms exactly like theirs, and no one in fact did.

This isn't material (in the sense of a work of art, or a magazine article) and it was never published. Internet forums are the equivalent of talking with friends.

I understand why it's bad form to not float the idea at all or ask for input, but for the life of me, I don't understand why anyone would be upset about this thing's existence. There's no harm done. ILX posts aren't something anyone does in the course of business, so it hurts no one on the money end. ILX posts are available to many more people every day, so privacy concerns are out.

Subtract those words and they'd be selling blank books, and while there are companies who do that, I don't think that's what CafePress had in mind.

Photocopiers don't sell blank paper -- but they don't sell math finals, either.

People here link photos, sometimes from large money-making websites, without fucking asking.

And yet people are getting their knickers in a knot about a pissy little photocopied chapbook that NO ONE WILL BUY so NO ONE WILL PROFIT FROM and if you all stopped talking about, IT WOULD GO AWAY QUIETLY.

Unlike ILX itself which is here for all to see. I *really* do not understand the reactions to this.

Having said all that, I think the concept is also silly, cus why would I want to buy a paper copy of something I could print out myself? I mean, huh?

exactly, it's not like someone's singing out your beautiful words over accordion gina g.

ILX is dead, long live ILX (or something).

For the record, people (after an initial "eh?" period) conceded that the photographer had a point and removed his images. After we removed his images, he hung around and continued to whine and complain as if we were still linking his images. This was the point when we told him to fuck off.

Nobody would buy a blank book.

It has not stopped many (most) people here from linking images willy-nilly all over the board the rest of the time though, which semanticallty isnt far removed from what this is about, to my mind (you may not agree tho). I'm guilty of it myself, of course.

I dont think the book is a good idea, but only cos I think it is stupid.

I also think everyone's just been superbly trolled. Dropt a bomb and walked off, he has. Hasnt anyone noticed how quiet he went? Hmm.

Let this ruin everyones good natured friendships, if y'all like...

xpost: Andrew, nobody would have bought this one anyway. I mean c'mon. IT WAS A TROLL.