Re: [LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

drew Roberts wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm, what book was that?

>> 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

I've also heard they went west because land and other stuff was cheaper.
Hollywood's idea of a "big budget movie" back then was a lot smaller
than even today's low-budget films.

-- 
David
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