I suspect that these dog turds in business suits have slipped in
something saying if you post something they own it. I suspect many of
us here would find we have work on such sites.
So in that sense copyright is a fiction, but only because they are
defrauding us with it by tricks. I found a magazine I have been in
digitised by Poetry Library in UK, all except my poems. My name had
some odd note about copyright so I wrote in and asked what the
restriction was and they have not replied. That I expect arises from
the widespread belief that if you do not answer a direct question then
you have not lied. And I havent yet spoken of arrogant rudeness.
I tend to put "copyright" on my typescripts though there is no need
under uk law
It seems that the editor and they are under the ignorant delusion
that those who have not done this are their to dispose of. In fact
all the poets should have been consulted. A few years ago Masthead was
digitally archived in Canberra and I recall Alison C specifically
asking me if that was ok, acknowledging my rights to the work she has
published
These schmucks we're talking about here have no ethics. The concept
of copyright is fine.
L
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Thanks, Chris. Without knowing exactly what's going on, these cases
just
reinforce my opinion that copyright is a bizarre and intolerable
fiction.
As if anyone could ever 'own' or 'steal' a poem or a song (these are
not,
of course, concepts in the law of copyright, just in the PR of people
making money out of it). A book or a record or a CD or guitar? Yes,
you can
own and steal those. And hold them in your hands.
It could be that a dispute over moral rights is the issue here. I
wonder if
the argument is over attribution...that's another story, of course.
Anyway, I'd encourage poets to read widely on the topic of copyright,
and
not assume (as I once did) that it is necessarily a good thing.
I'm certainly no expert in these things. Just my two bits, for what
they're
worth. :)
On 6 June 2013 15:09, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 06/06/13 17:01, Nathan Hondros wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Any chance you can cut and paste the information into an email. I
can't
>> access it without opening a Facebook account, which I won't do,
but I'm
>> very interested.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nathan Hondros
>>
>>
>> On 6 June 2013 14:47, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>> A call to arms to poets of the world!
>>>
>> this is the best I can do, but you don't neede an account, this is
public
>
>
> Bloody outrageous. YouTube, at the behest of the
> representatives of a singer I don't listen to, placed a
> copyright notice on an original digital poem of mine that I
> put up there. When I disputed it, they threatened legal
> action! I countered with an similar offer. Attempting to steal
> poems? They must want all the money we poets make from our work.
>
> 1 >
>
> Chris Mansell, Australian poet has been hit with a breach of
copyright...
>>> this is one of my greatest fears, as a queer unknown poet who
finds
>>> themselves being sued for copyright on a poem for which they own
the
>>> copyright. see: (and previous post)
>>>
>>> https://www.facebook.com/****mansellpresspress/posts/**
>>> 10151480428466121?comment_id=****27256337&offset=0&total_****
>>> comments=23>>
10151480428466121?comment_id=**27256337&offset=0&total_**comments=23
>>> >
>>>
>>> --
>>> BLOG http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.****com.au/>> blogspot.com.au/
>
>>>
>>>
>
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> BLOG http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.**com.au/
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