Another annoying thing is the need to get copyright permissions for the use of quotes. This is a scholarly book. I will get no profit from it. It is written in English, so it will bring the names of Spanish writers whim nobody in the English-speaking world even knows about to the attention of a few American scholars. That’s all it will do. Why should there even be the issue of copyright restrictions?
Copyright Sucks Something Fierce
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This is especially annoying since scholarship is for educational purposes, and is not a true money-making venture. (Unless, perhaps, your books are bestsellers and I just don’t know about it.)
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Exactly! This is pure scholarship with no financial gains sought by me or the press.
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Ideally, copyright is a good idea, but the laws are so corrupted now that they have no real moral or ethical standing. It’s just brute force in legal clothing.
Whatever happened to fair use? I know the copyright lobby has been trying to have the idea erased for years or decades. Have they succeeded?
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I can use under 300 words total. But this is in depth analysis, so I always exceed 300 words.
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Whether it sucks or not, that’s the law.
Copyright laws enabled a grouchy Irving Berlin to to keep academics who published scholarly books about American music from quoting any lines of his famous songs, and those same laws enable Martin Luther King Jr.’s family to charge exorbitant fees to academic publications and even newspapers that want to quote excerpts from his public speeches.
Whether the publisher receives any financial gain from the quotes is irrelevant.
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“.. that’s the law.”
Captain Obvious strikes again!
This post is about why the law sucks. And you chime in with ‘it’s the law’.
Well duh. Good job, good effort.
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And you wasted a post complaining about my obvious post.
Ah, Stringer Boy, it’s SO easy to rattle your cage! 🙂 🙂
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Oh no, I wasted a post! Good thing it’s the end of the month and my CYBER-BIT INTERNET TUBES QUOTA will be replenished soon.
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