Jennifer Sutton wrote:
>I'll admit this may be out of line, but I'll seize the opportunity to
>bring up my personal favorite advocacy issue.
>
>What about my "right" to easy access to texts?
>
>That's a rhetorical question, not really meant to sidetrack discussion
>from authors' rights, which, as an author, I also, of course, find
>compelling.
>
>I think authors' rights can be retained and blind folks' opportunities
>to obtain and read books in a *timely* fashion simultaneously expanded.
>
You're not out of line, Jennifer, but the issue of access is I think a
separate issue which is not always about what authors try (or don't) to do.
To try to keep the original point on track, can I ask you, and others,
- first, do you think all women are interested in interpreting and
understanding feminism, and that this 'interest' is always socially created
or constructed?
- second, do you think it is wrong for computer buffs to write books full
of megabytes, RAM, and sophisticated programming language for other
computer buffs?
- third, since Isaac Newton is in the news at the moment, let's suppose his
theory of gravity was prevented from reaching the public domain just
because his 'expert' contemporaries thought it was rubbish or 'off the
wall' on the basis of their knowledge? How would you react to that in the
light of what you know now?
- and finally, can a tree survive and grow if its strength is not tested
against the elements and it exists in conditions of drought?
I know I'm being cryptic, though it is not my intention to confuse.
Best wishes
Mairian
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