From: James James <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 03 September 1999 05:53
Subject: (c) for Lawrence, Alan, Alaric
I got 4 copies of this message. I don't know which is the original. I only I
am not replying to a bootleg copy.
I don't have much quarrel with what you say
except perhaps
|Isn't poetry made of these two
freedoms?|
I don't know about this. Tentatively I am going to put along side poetry
being democratic - which is a mixing up of concept type
To reiterate, because to me it is important, the assertion of copyright is a
declaration that my work and the work that I edit / publish is important.
Yes, copyright is a commercial - well is it a commercial invention? It has a
commercial function. It has, now, a corporate function. & it's the corporate
/ monopoly functions that are dangerous.
I am opposed to using copyright to stop biographers easily functioning and
to charge someone crossing the field. When you die, your pension and social
security stops, your bank account freezes - in fact all the life-sustaining
aspects of capitalism stop but all the life-destroying aspects, standing
orders etc go on - the individual goes down and all the yobs pile on top.
(Sport develops necessary social skills.)
Death means you cease to exist not only as a physical being but as that
extended cyber token accruing and losing value, as if in some adventure
game. I don't see why writers should be treated differently.
Lawrence
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