To show my ignorance, I had no clue what a robot dance was until I checked it out on You Tube. Here is an example:
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About Me
- Paul Dale Anderson
- Author of Claw Hammer, Daddy's Home, Abandoned, Deviants, The Devil Made Me Do It, The Instruments of Death series, The Winds series, and other novels and short stories. I write horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and thrillers. Active member of HWA, SFWA, and ITW. Retired Librarian @ Rockford Public Library and retired Rock Valley College instructor
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ReplyDeleteI don't know if you'll post again before our deadline for the blog, so in case you don't, here is my overall review.
I must admit, our writing and blogging styles are so different, I really had to get used to your style! But once I did, I really enjoyed your blog and learned a lot about some of the licensing/copyright and related issues that fiction authors face particularly in the digital age.
I commend your blogging style because it is truly a diary-like approach, which as I understand it, was the original intent of web-logging. You did a fantastic job of keeping up with researching articles, linking them into your blog, and summarizing many of them. I liked the balance you had between linking to resources, asking your readers to draw conclusions, and summarizing/annotating others for your readers.
That said, I would have a difficult time quanitfying your word count, but since I'm not the instructor, I suppose I don't need to worry about that! I think I mentioned to you in a comment on one of the earlier June posts that I would have followed your blog a little bit better if in its youth you had posted the piece summarizing how licensing works for fiction authors as an introductory blog post. You acknowledged that comment, and I appreciated and understood your response.
I've only recently looked at many of your July posts, and have posted additional comments and points of discussion there. I'll say that I was happy to find that you had responded to many of my June comments, and I enjoyed that we were having some discussion and back and forth on a few of the topics you've researched.
As far as your topic goes, I did not know anything about licensing fiction, particularly from the author's perspective. You broadened my scope of understanding and contributed to my overall take-home lessons about licensing gleaned from this course. I thought you touched on some of the very critical issues facing both electronic licensing in general and licensing of fiction works (and protection of their authors), such as preservation of their pre-published drafts and manuscripts; how an author can possibly make a living by just writing, and in particular how electronic dissemination and piracy are suppressing this goal of the fiction author; what some writing associations are doing about the problem; some possible solutions such as paying authors salaries or paying them royalties for every download; and how the recent Google books project plays into copyright protecton (or lack thereof) for authors who, despite popular belief, do not have orphaned works.
I wish you the best of luck in your own writing and also in your library career.
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