At 04:00 PM 4/12/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:

Choate has given an implied consent for his posts to be redistributed in certain ways. Much as Usenet participants do. He has probably not given consent for all of his posts to be combined and sold by Wired as a book (of course this is just a hypothetical, nobody would buy it).

Medical schools stock psychiatric casebooks; the Book of Jim would be rather monotonous after a while, but it might sell.