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Arguably reproducing his entire blog post verbatim violates his copyright...

I'd say this could fall under fair use... :)

It could be certainly. Fair use is determined on a case by case basis and one of the factors is the amount of the work used in respect to the whole work. He quoted the entire work...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_...

I'm not a lawyer, but it seems the use could constitute educational, in a journalistic sense. Also as the work was deleted it would be hard to argue any lost economical value.

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