> >autonomous units, not 'extracts' from their parent volume --
> >a 2-line poem may be a whole poem as much as a 200-line
> >poem, and thus liable to copyright law in the same way. This
> >more than anything makes them vulnerable. Also, being whole
> >units, and being poems, their 'success' (for want of a better word)
> >*depends* on their totality to some degree, i.e. reproduction
> >in full. Unless you're quoting a section from 'The Man with the
> >Blue Guitar' . . . even so, a section may be a whole in itself.
> >In general, quoting a poem with the final stanza missing is to
> >disfigure the piece -- and since poetry resists paraphrasing
> >to the death, it's not as if there's any workable options.
I find this description (I am sorry, Andy, nothing to do with you, but with
the
subject matter) totally demoralizing...( I am starting wondering: is there
something
deeply wrong with me? should I seek medical advice?)
>The only problem I can see
> >would be if someone was gaining financially from this act..#
If someone is clever enough as to earn money out of publishing
my work, what's wrong? I always granted free permission to
publish my poems to literary editors of magazines, and anthologies.
Just a reminder>>>They have not find the cure for cancer, yet my friends.
And here we are not discussing the matter in relation of rising funds for
the benefit of one of these noble Research Institutions, but for our
necessary pints of beer.
(I accept the legal aspect of copyrights, though,- in all their negativity -
since my brother, being a lawyer, earns his living out of legal disputes: we
need people to fight and go to court about something, after all.
I would love to take someone to the Court, but I did not have the chance ,
yet...)
I shall start checking who is publishing - without permission - the
valuable poems I composed that I let a friend publish in an Internet
web-site.
This is the last post I can allow myself. My eye sight is progressively
diminishing. My spelling errors - to be fair - depend on that.
Ciao-ello.erminia
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