Subject: RE: Web publishing, Whitman, the Dead
From: Malcolm Lawrence (Malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Date: Sat May 10 1997 - 14:04:33 GMT
>I'm wondering what your thoughts are as far as the control you'll have
over
>netpublished stuff and the copyright complications of the web. Are you at
>all worried about plagiarism? I ask (among other reasons) because I've
>finally decided to actually do something semi-substantial with that
address
>at the bottom of all my posts, and I've been feeling a little unsure of
the
>wisdom of publishing my fiction on the web.
Well my first novel I secured the copyright for through the Library of
Congress back in 91 and everything else gets natural legitimate copyright
protection. Plagiarism is a funny thing. I wrote a play with an all-female
cast twelve years that deals with abortion, rape, bad guys, all sorts of
heavy female issues and when I lived in Glasgow I met the only feminist
organization in town and they wanted to perform my play. Four weeks later
(after I had put in four weeks work to "regionalize" the play for Scotland)
I was told that they wanted to write their own play using my ideas. I was
told I would probably be plagiarized. I never heard from them again, and
the thing that broke my heart was I had a lot of compassion for them. I
mean, when I was first introduced to them they were having a lot of trouble
putting in their own toilet in their space.
Quite frankly I want my website to be like very sticky flypaper. I've had
nothing but cruelty, sharks and bad luck as far as my attempts to be
published are concerned, so what I'm trying to ultimately do is create a
site where I control the content as well as the design as well as attract
any agents, editors or publishers who would like to give me money to use my
stuff. Eventually I'd like to register my own domain name and just see if I
can make a business out of it. I mean, the ISP that I'm on here in Seattle
(Wolfenet) gives everyone with an account ten free megs of space to play
with. And I didn't realize just how much stuff you can cram on ten free
megs. With all the ambitious content I'm going to have on my site I'm still
going to have at least four or five megs left over. So as long as it's
free, I may as well use it.
>I am, however, bursting to put
>on display my letter to the Selective Service System which I sent them
along
>with my (grudging) registration upon turning 18. (But that's a whole other
>story, and my qualms with the gov't are a bit of a digression).
Yeah, I remember putting "C.O." at the top when I registered back in 1982.
Nobody ever said anything.
Malcolm
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