>I ought to add in this context that Salt will protect its authors from
>piracy and abuse, and fight to ensure fair payment for all writers,
>particularly those who face oppression, whether from corporate abuse or any
>other form of exploitation.
>
>Some writers depend on the income from their work and I would want to
>support them in this. Copyright is the only mechanism by which they and
>their publishers can fight off forms of exploitation.
Chris
I thank you for this, but it seems to me that protection can go too far. I
was lucky wity Michael O, in that as it was a critical study, I eventually
managed to get the various publishers to let me quote (up to only 3 lines
at a time, yes) without payment. Which would have come from my pocket (as
that's how publishers han dle this thing now with their scholar-critics).
As a writer (who, admittedly, does not depend on the income from my work),
I wouldn't mind someone quoting a whole poem (or section of a poem) if they
were doing so in the practice of good criticism. And I do think that when
I've discussed the poems of particular authors, I have also been helping to
promote that work. If such quotation eventually leads a few readers to the
volume from which it came, is that not a good thing?
Just wondering...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
My roof was once firm
yet now it cannot even
keep the stars out.
Christopher Dewdney
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