Lineland/Intellectual Property

[Kim L. Serkes]

How's this one? Suppose you accumulate change in your pocket indending to
give it away
to beggars. Suppose that some desperate soul robs you and takes all your spare
change. You'd intended to give the change away, it meant nothing to you.
You might not bother having the miserable wretch arrested and prosecuted,
but you've still been robbed.  See?

If I'm writing for profit (or for scholarship,) then I understand that my
words will be used in certain ways. I understand that someone may make fair
use of them, and accept that because such use will enhance my reputation
(or visibility anyway.)

It's all academic here, of course, since I joined this merrie bande after
Jules came trolling through.

>Okay.  Let's say you write a book, or even several and there is a Serkes
>oeuvre.  There is also some literary type somewhere who decides to write a
>critical work on the works of Kim L. Serkes.  In this critical work some
>of your words will be quoted.  The author of this book is going to make
>some amount of money (profit) on the sales of his book; you will not.
>
>In this instance, would this critic have hell to pay?  If not, then why
>not?