thought maybe the readers of the list would be interested in this article about "copyright": http://slate.msn.com/id/2084960/ even though the author gets a couple things wrong, (for instance, when discussing the 2 live crew's "pretty woman" deconstruction, it's claimed there was "little question" that it "threatened the original's commercial profits", which is ABSOLUTELY wrong) it's still a fairly good read and the correct conclusion is reached :)