Le Guin on piracy, intended or otherwise

The following comments have recently appeared on Ursula K. Le Guin's website: SFWA, Piracy, and Serious Literature — An Open Letter.

I urge you to click through and read both her original statement and her followup, and to follow the links to Cory Doctorow's apology and to Le Guin's wonderful one-paragraph story on the fanzine Ansible. She deals brilliantly with issues of intellectual property, as well as with the tension between Serious Literature and Genre Crap.