Seems to me that poetry, unlike most prose, lives (or should live) in
a gift economy.
I've been giving mine away for years and years and years (which
doesn't mean it's
of no value to me, its primary reader).
Hal
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On Dec 14, 2007, at 5:37 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
> I agree Mole. the issue of ownership/permission is tricky in poetry,
> because it is the outcome of the writer's (sometimes questionable)
> artifice & it's something the poet HAS & OWNS & loves as an entity --
> theft is a very unlikely scenario, especially for marginal or
> underground-upcoming poets, but it's an automatic fear because of the
> nature of a poet's work.
>
> copyright has come up recently for me, because I'm co-authoring a
> collection of my & four other poets' work; we don't have the money to
> purchase legal copyrights, but while the potential for theft of our
> poems exists, it is a marginal & unlikely threat especially since our
> collection will probably only find its way into the hands of a couple
> hundred people, at best. the initiator & informal 'leader' of our
> project, Alex Fear, said that the existence of our poems in a bound,
> hard-copy, published book is enough to establish a copyright (or a
> precedent, should someone be weird or foolish enough to use our poetry
> elsewhere without permission *knock on wood*), even if it isn't
> authorised in legal documents per se.
>
> what do you think, how important is a purchased copyright? absolutely
> necessary? optional? not worth the trouble?
>
> KS
>
> On 14/12/2007, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I think she goes a little overboard with someone who sends copies
>> of a
>> poem to her friends, but otherwise right on.
>>
>> andrew burke wrote:
>>> Nothing new here, but Wendy Cope attacking the non-copyright use of
>>> poems on the Net:
>>> http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2223830,00.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Tad Richards
>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>>
>> The moral is this: in American verse,
>> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>> --Corey Ford
>>
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