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From: Will Jennings
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:09:57 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Copyright

Nope. What we're having is a discussion about plagiarism
and violation of copyright law (as in both letter and sentiment thereof)
and I'm sorry if conflicting opinions threaten your personal sense
of well being.

As a musician and a writer who must work very hard to scrape a living
in a culture which does not readily appreciate the property of either
profession, it bugs me when people show casual disregard for
origin and source. I don't go looking for ways to be offended or pissed off.
And I also realize that, in a social and anthropoligic sense, plagiarism
is the 'backbone of cultural exchange'. I can hear the tu quo que
arguments firing up, so let me dismiss most now: You're right. I'm a
hyprocrite. After every blues lick I play, I do not go through the
audience handing our a bibliography/discography, and I don't credit
the inventors of the alphabet each time I write.

I doubt that many of the authors represented on this list would much care
for someone scanning their books and posting them in downloadable form on
a free access web site.

One day a gentleman called me and asked if I would play for a saturday
morning kid breakfast program done by his local Lion's Club. I sed, sure.
I'd do it for a hundred bucks. He was shocked and said, well, gosh, we
don't pay. But we'd feed you breakfast. I asked what he did for a living.
He said he was a tax lawyer. I sed, Gee hows about you come over to my
place next week and go over my tax situation and prepare my return. You
could do it for nothing, and I'd feed you breakfast.

Where you stand depends upon where you sit.

wjj (still citing fjm on the design of this sig)