On Sep 29, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
> The case was a copyright case.... and it was called Harper and
> Row v. Nation Enterprises 471 U.S. 539 (1985), if any one is
> interested.
>
> What Harper hit the Nation for was extensive quotation of the book
> and thus they claimed that the Nation violated their copyright.
Ok, right, but as I recall Harper was pissed off that The Nation had broken an embargo. It was a commercial dispute that took the form of a copyright complaint. Lemme email Victor Navasky for a comment.
Doug