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On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 1:46:59 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> 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?

Looks that has been delayed.....