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On Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 5:55:07 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
> On Friday, December 28, 2018 at 2:47:03 PM UTC-5, NancyGene wrote:
> > On Friday, December 28, 2018 at 7:35:09 PM UTC, Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > The poem is in the public domain... no stealing happened.
> > Pick didn't just happen to find the poem while strolling through poetry
> > lane.  He took it from Poem of the Day
>
> That doesn't make it "stealing", shit for brains. "Poem of the Day" took
> the page from another site (probably the one I gave you). Once again,
> that's how the internet works. As I explained in the article on Public
> Domain Day that you probably missed:
>
> "French poet Alfred de Vigny ... equated the end of a work's copyright
> with it falling "into the sinkhole of public domain." "Sinkhole" was a
> good description; For most books, songs and poems, the lack of copyright
> meant that no one would publish them; a work that fell into the public
> domain could well and truly disappear.
>
> However, the internet changed all that.... Today, rather than being lost
> to us, public domain works are available and freely accessible to
> billions."
>
> That's how the internet works, assclown. Your whining about it being
> "stealing" just makes makes you look like an idiot. (Not to say that you
> aren't an idiot, of course, just that you'd probably prefer not to look
> like one.)
>
> > > Conrad Aiken sees an interesting poet to discuss, I'm game, if the
> > > rest of you are.
> >
> > Aiken is kind of dead, but what poet do you think he sees, in a dead
> > reckoning sort of way?

> I noticed your piece on Canada "delaying" the changes in Copyright law,
> George?

Okay, I found the post...