Klarinet Archive - Posting 000132.txt from 2000/08

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Facial exercises?
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 06:17:30 -0400

> Wasn`t it the editor who was hoping to continue publishing the books, but
> couldn`t, due to public domain-ness. Therefore no possible royalty accrue-
> ment? Therefore "unfortunately".

Geez, people. Get a sense of humor! He wasn't laughing at the inequities
of copyright issues. As you all know by now, Mark's quite a budding little
intellectual property authority, so it's hardly justified to accuse him of
having an uninformed perspective. The "unfortunately", interpreted by some-
body who actually has a funny bone in their body, could be humorously seen
to imply that Stoker's other works weren't very good, adding bad aesthetics
to the problem of discontinued royalties. It's not that they really *aren't*
very good -- I'm sure Stoker was a great writer and that his other writings
are as enjoyable as his magnum opus. Can't a guy poke a little semantic fun
every now & then without being righteously mauled?

Neil

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