Lineland/Intellectual Property

[Ted Samsel]

> 
> 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.

So it is is fine for your major professor to steal your work, but not
a private schlubb? Ah, the ivy covered manses of arcadian Academe!
To-whit, to-whoo, sayeth the grackles as they promenade across the
quad! Merrily, merrily and Spring is in the air.

tejas at infi.net
          "I only use my gun whenever kindness fails"
                                 Robert Earl Keen