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not really sure how that's a cultural mispractice(its just the way the copyright laws work), or what it has to do with altering classic literature.
This person can make this fan editted version of Huck Finn because the work entered the public domain, the purpose of the public domain is to allow people to interact with culture. Copyright used to be 14 years, it's now life+70 or 95 years. (and ever expanding) People are surrounded by culture, but with the current copyright regime, they have been denied the ability to freely interact with works because nothing enters the public domain.
This Huck Finn is not censorship. Huck Finn is public domain, go print out your own copy.
Here's a copy of the 1st American edition 1885:
http://www.archive.org/details/adventureshuckle00twaiiala
Go crazy, find/replace anything you want. Stick it up your blog.
Denying the public from freely interacting with thousands of works seems like a massive cultural mispractice to me. Just because it is the way it is, doesn't mean it's also not productive.
