Does that mean that an author, for some reason not wanting to be quoted under fair use, could sell all the individual paragraphs from his book separately and prevent anone else from quoting from the book.

Let’s hope not. Such a situation would make a hash of fair use.

–Mike Perry, Inkling Books, Seattle

P.S. And I love Ariba. It was a key component in my (successful) copyright dispute with the Tolkien estate over a Lord of the Rings chronology, Untangling Tolkien. The sort of terse snapshots of events needed for a detailed chronology, I argued, are like the thumbnails of art in Ariba. If the latter is fair use, then so it the former.