AOL publishes plays apparently written by Virginia Tech gunman
Harry Fuller Executive editor, CNET News.com
Harry Fuller escaped from television work to be executive editor at CNET News.com.
Ian MacFarlane, a graduate of Virginia Tech, now works at AOL. He was in a writing class with Cho Seung-Hui, named as the gunman in the campus shooting Monday.
On Tuesday, MacFarlane posted on the AOL News blog two plays apparently written by Cho in that class. The AOL staffer blogged that "when we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare."
So AOL has now published these two plays online, and the blogger who published them admits he doesn't know if doing so is legal: Are there issues here of copyright? Or privacy? How does those weigh against AOL's freedom of speech?