RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Dunno about authors, but it is not unusual
for artists to have to wait for a long time
(sometimes after death!) for their works to
become popular.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. C. Sessions [mailto:dcs@lumbercartel.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 5:31 PM
> To: DVD-Discuss
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 16:29, Tom wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 06:52:27PM -0400, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> > > Yes, some works and authors only make it big after 30-40 
> years. So what?
> > > 
> > > If a work is popular that far in the future, its 
> essentially a windfall
> > > that the author could not have planned for nor expected 
> when he/she/they
> > > origionally created the work. 
> > 
> > moreover, who says that the public domain status means the author
> > doesn't get his share? he may go on tour (yes, even book authors
> > sometimes go around on reading sessions) or get interviews, op-ed
> > pieces, all kinds of offers. not to mention that his OTHER 
> works will
> > likely see more sales, too.
> > 
> > equating public domain with starving authors is just 
> another of Jack's
> > propaganda tricks. please don't fall for it.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something.  Could someone
> please point me to even *one* instance in the last
> two centuries -- why not, since the First Congress -- of
> an author whose work was a complete flop during the first
> 28 years and only then became seriously successful?
> 
> I mean *total* flop, not just make-a-bare-living published.
> It seems to me that this scenario is like building your
> welfare system around having needy families win the lottery.
> 
> -- 
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> |  the strength to change the things I cannot accept, and the   |
> |    cunning to hide the bodies of those who got in my way.     |
> +------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> -----------+
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