On Saturday 03 July 2010 06:49:05 david wrote: > I used to write and sell poetry. Didn't make a living at it, it was just > part of the creative writing business back then. At the time, poets in > America made a living in only a few ways: wrote greeting card verse!, or > were university professors. (I think one woman poet made a good living > writing small books of maudlin verse that were sold on rotating racks > near the greeting cards.) One of my poetry instructors (and my > undergraduate advisor) has had several poetry collections published. I > have one of them. None of the poems strike a chord with ordinary people. > He's probably not sold enough copies to recoup the publishing cost! I seem to remember reading some science fiction once where poets were the stars and musicians were in the state poets are in now. > snip > > Just think what the world would be like if someone back in the early > days of movie making had patented the whole movie making process I heard that Hollywood is where it is and not the East coast because things were patented and they went far away to "hide" - that's one story I have read at least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company#Backlash_and_Decline > ("business process patents," anyone?), then used their resulting wealth > to successfully keep extending patents the way Disney Corporation got > copyright protection extended to prevent Mickie Mouse from entering the > public domain). We'd have only Hollywood movies - and barrages of patent > infringement suits keeping Japanese, Chinese, Indian and European movies > out of the United States! There'd be a flourishing black market in > "foreign" films, with "film runners" smuggling the latest Hong Kong > martial arts movie across the borders into the grubby hands of organized > crime who would shift it down to shady "film dealers" and "speakeasy > movie theaters"! > > All because of copyrights and patents. See - back on topic! > > ;-) > David > gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > authenticity, honesty, community all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
