I was channel surfing this morning looking for news on the Palin endorsement OR the Komen conference story when I happened upon Fox talking about the copycat Palin book and arguing that it isn’t protected as a parody since you can’t tell them apart. The judge suggested a jury would side with Palin if she sued.
Over at Robert Stacy’s in comments I compared her to Grant. If she was foolish enough to sue she would be Grant at Cold Harbor.
First: it plays to the book banning myth.
Second: this is a paperback and her book is a hardcover so it will be different in terms of perception.
Third: do you want to be the bookstore clerk who has to deal with the angry customer on this when it is being returned? How the book is displayed will have a lot to do of it.
Fourth: The Fuss over this will only promote her own book more and get people who don’t want to talk about her book talking about it.
Fifth: It’s speech, you don’t want to be against speech.
…and finally like Glenn Reynolds, she craps much bigger than them.
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