I suppose we could start a charity that collects money to pay volunteers.
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>From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: May 6, 2014 1:26 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: plagiarism and poetry
>
>Something like that is supposed to be starting here (as of March just gone)
>see
>https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-data-release-opens-the-lid-on-charity-finances
>
>but it's very hard to unravel. I recently went as a 'lay representative' to
>an all-day event on presentations from interested charities for some
>lottery monies, I won't be too specific. What really stood out to me and
>other 'panelists' was that in each case the funds asked for were solely to
>support a paid co-ordinator and for their 'office space'. It was assumed in
>every presentation that the 'actual work' would be done by 'volunteers',
>which as you know increasingly means people working for nothing under
>compulsion.
>
>btw a 2011 list I saw, via the Charity Commision, gave, as the second
>highest funded charity in the country, the Arts Council! -
>http://www.charityinsight.com/news/income-generation/the-top-100-charity-index-
>
>
>best
>
>dave
>
>
>On 6 May 2014 17:59, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> In this country charities have to make public the percentage of donations
>> that actually support the charity's ostensible goals.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Sent: May 6, 2014 12:50 PM
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >Subject: Re: plagiarism and poetry
>> >
>> >I had not known theft had undone so many.
>> >
>> >wait a sec ... that's by ... oh and ...
>> >
>> >Francis Bacon reportedly told Queen Elizabeth, upon her demanding that the
>> >author of Richard II be tried for treason, that he should 'rather be
>> >charged with larceny, for he hath stolen most of his lines from Cornelius
>> >Tacitus'.
>> >
>> >You can though, earn a reasonable middle-class income via acquiring the
>> >status of a poet, through creative writing teaching etc etc, which , as
>> one
>> >recently recognised 'poet' put it, is much 'better than the world of
>> work'.
>> >So it becomes awfully convenient to appropriate material for your claim to
>> >status. In that respect the articles are misleading - people do make a
>> >living out of poetry nowadays, far more so than in the past.
>> >It, and not plagiarism, is very similar to what has happened to charities,
>> >where the main financial thrust is to support paid 'co-ordinators'.
>> >Churches of course are bedevilled by jobsworths - I recall a friend
>> showing
>> >me a parish newsletter where the incumbent had written 'it is the purpose
>> >of a church and its congregation to provide for and support a priest'.
>> >I don't think the poetical plagiarists write for 'fame' - but for a
>> >comfortable recognition in a quiet corner of happy unseen feeding. Like
>> >fish, in the hidden parts of a pond.
>> >
>> >best
>> >
>> >dave
>> >
>> >
>> >On 6 May 2014 00:23, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> So many? I know of a couple ... well, maybe a few.
>> >>
>> >> On Monday, May 5, 2014, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Laziness, panic, narcissism, low self-esteem, ambition, deliberate
>> >> > self-sabotage: Why so many poets are plagiarizing…
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/247130
>> >> >
>> >> > Ruth Graham: Word Theft:
>> >> > 2013 the year of the plagiarists
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> :: from the desk of Halvard Johnson ::
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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