"Death and Football," an important and seminal article about the long-term impact of football injuries, written by Clark Booth for Boston alternative weekly the Real Paper in January 1976, is back online -- legally this time -- thanks to the New York Times.

Although the story got caught in the middle of an ideological cock-fight about copyright between myself and the Times, that skirmish is over, and it's a pleasure to be able to recommend you go immediately to the Times site and read Booth's piece, which is a classic.

Whomp, whump.

In his curious new response to my previous disembowelings of his columns on copyright, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller suggests that the Times somehow did not engage in copyright infringement by uploading a pirated PDF of a Real Paper story last week. "I leave to lawyers – if any care to waste the time – to argue whether making that PDF available crossed any line in the copyright law," he writes.

Et tu: Boston Review content, posted on New York Times servers without permission

[UPDATE] NEW POST: Bill Keller responds [Friday, Feb 10]

Yesterday, I wrote an open letter to former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, as a response to two smug columns about copyright that he wrote on the same weekend that the Times poached an article from our company's archives.

[UPDATE] NEW POST: Bill Keller? Me again. Here's another article the New York Times pirated [Thursday, Feb 9]

[UPDATE] NEW POST: Bill Keller responds [Friday, Feb 10]

[UPDATE] NEW POST: Joe Nocera responds, Booth article republished legally [Wednesday, Feb 15]

Bill Keller: I heard you like copyright.