Thursday, July 9, 2009

The Poor Starving Writers' Cookbook

How should writers be paid for their work? Should they be paid for each piece or should they be paid a salary? Should all writers be subsidized by the government? By Google? By libraries? By readers? By publishers?

What does copyright really mean? Does it protect only corporate entities who publish or distribute works? Wasn't copyright protection meant to stimulate creativity at the origin of creativity--the writing level?

Here is a PowerPoint presentation that begins to explore these questions:


https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/xythoswfs/webui

2 comments:

  1. Sorry about that. The link doesn't work unless you are a student at UW and log in through Shibboleth. I'll look for another way to post the powerpoint.

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  2. Paul - it might work if you copy/paste the URL of the presentation itself. I think the URL you have up points to MyWebSpace but not necessarily to your exact presentation file. If you open your presentation from MyWebSpace first, then copy/paste that URL, I think it might work.

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