Copyright and David Foster Wallace's Commencement Address

So in 2005, the novelist David Foster Wallace gave the commencement address at my alma mater, Kenyon College. Within a couple days, everyone was sending everyone a link (it was here) to a careful transcription of the speech complete with off-the-cuff jokes and a couple [indecipherable:]s.

Anyway, I really like the speech. It inspired a lot of the stuff in Paper Towns, and also I basically try to wear the glasses of the speech when looking at the world around me. To be totally honest, the way I thi