To defend the excerpts, Gawker invoked the fair use doctrine, which holds that a publication can publish copyrighted material so long as it adds commentary in the process, which Cook certainly does.įrom Dunham's manuscript: "I've been in therapy since I was seven."įrom Cook's Commentary: "The quoted sentence is revelatory of Dunham's character in that it provides evidence that she has been examining her own thoughts and desires analytically from an absurdly young age. After Gawker published the entire book proposal that netted Girls’ Lena Dunham millions from Random House, Dunham’s attorney asks them to take it down. Gawker complied, but it kept 12 scattered quotes from the work, adding its own annotations, penned, of course, by "Girls" nemesis John Cook. Today, Dunham explains at length on the photo-sharing platform the non-racist way she confusing Lil' Jon with Lil' Wayne. Today's New Yorker published its first ". The first season of Girls ended mid-June of that yearif you want a picture of where we, collectively, stood with Horvath and Co.and so the news of the book deal was received about as warmly as you'd expect. The book, 'Not That Kind of Girl,' is pitched as a funny lady-advice book about life and. Back in October of 2012, Lena Dunham sold a comedy memoir to Random House for 3.7M with an illustrated, 66-page proposal. Author and director Lena Dunham took to Twitter today to call the claims that she'd. Millennial actress Lena Dunham recently " deleted Twitter" because she is " trying to create a safer space for herself emotionally." Now, Instagram is her choice of platform for sharing her thoughts with the world. Last Friday, Gawker published 'Girls' creator Lena Dunham's proposal for her 3.7 million book deal.
Soon after Gawker published the manuscript excerpts, it received a stern letter from Dunham's attorney, who demanded the site remove the proposal. Lena Dunham Responds to Right-Wing Claim of Sibling 'Sexual Abuse'. 7, Gawker published part of Dunham's book manuscript, titled "Not That Kind of Girl."Ĭook, prefacing Gawker's publication of the proposal, wrote, "It's basically literary lifecasting: Fully 13% of the proposal's pages are devoted to reproducing a diary Dunham kept of what she ate in 2010."
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