The KC shooter has a website, was a NC gubernatorial candidate in 1984

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Good call on the edit, Ernest.  We don't want the jailed mass murderer to call Dave on copyright infringement.

Copyright is copyright.  Tho to be fair, I wasn't the one to report it.  Still, copyright shouldn't be reserved for the rich, or the powerful, or the sane.

How would this not easily fall under Fair Use? This was a political candidate for statewide office who wrote a manifesto intended for wide, free non-commercial distribution. Reproducing his text does not cause any damages or financial loss to him.

Wouldn't you assume that his intent here is to maximize the distribution of the ideas he presented, and that he would want this information widely disseminated? Does it make any logical sense that anyone would, never mind could, sue over this?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I would suggest that Dhillon v. Doe shows that reprinting the manifesto here is -- with legal precedent -- fair use.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/fair-use-triumphs-teh-munger-games

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I do not agree that a written piece of this length (especially one clearly created for wide, free distribution without any commercial intent or value) is a more substantial work than reprinting a single photograph. And I do believe this is transformative under the same copyright standard.

The fact this particular author is an immoral scumbag does not change the fact that he has a moral right to control the use of his work.

The United States legal system is certainly not one that respects the moral rights of political manifesto writers.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Surely this maniac would rather shoot us than sue us?

Don't you dare drag common sense into this.