A few weeks ago, in a post on fair use in the blogosphere, I wrote:
“In my view, social norms in the blogosphere indeed represent a departure from the fair use doctrine, although I am not aware of actual court cases where a blogger has been accused of breaching copyright law. If someone knows of such a case, I’d be interested to hear about it in the comments.”
It turns out that there are such cases. Last weekend, The Atlantic‘s Megan McArdle wrote about “copyright trolling”: