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"try recording some of your poetry over looped beats and maybe you can be a rapper! :)"
My family would kill me first. -
I play guitar and really bad piano, I was in a band, I don't do covers. I don't do bardic readings, I read once at a bookstore, bad things happened.
I paint pictures too, I work a day job, I have kids and I love mowing our lawn. Also I love our garage way too much.
I'm just an average joe, nobody who knows me would ask for a cover or a live reading (I write for the page) and anybody who doesn't know me wouldn't know I am a poet, or a guitar player, or a painter.
They probably don't even see me at all. -
Kids, if some teacher sidles up to you and tells you to become a poet...release the evil.
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Hhehe, yeah but I'm a really heavy poet maan <Neil the hippy voice, not Rick the People's Poet).
And besides, I'm totally in it for the money, meh. -
I have a confession, I'm not a writer...<whispers>...I'm a poet.
As for my comment re: pay for it out of their own money...I rescind that, I've got no problems with an archive that I give two of each of my books to, it's been done already and they don't chase you down, heh, rampant arcivista's coming for teh artworks.
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I'll make my point about copyright again. Any modern democracy's most important act of support for creators isn't direct funding, but the establishment and protection of copyrights. The fact that society might require a couple of copies of new works for its libraries of record, by way of reciprocation, seems reasonable to me.
...and to me too. I was quite pleased they wanted mine (works), and yes, God love The Archivists! I do.
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It gets real scary when you get people like Winston and Barry on TV3 talking up "my shares in AKL Airport", or Helen talking up AirNZ shares. Alot of council managers have AKL Airport and Ports Of AKL shares as well, meanwhile most politicians are property investors in some form (Michael is, and some others got pinged for double dipping) while they have guaranteed dollar for dollar Super (so they tend to legislate round their personal investment strategies).
Also Govt. bailing out AirNZ to 1 billion dollars, so they could keep Singapore Airlines away, strategic asset you see (free travel for life plus loved one's).
The reason why investing here from offshore is so attractive is because... -
Robbery said, "Nat Lib aren't interested in your copyright rights."
Then what are they interested in, a cultural record? If they just want that then they should pay for it out of their own money and charge admission or something to defray expenses. Like museums and libraries now are going concerns you know, as are galleries and such, oh God I know where I'm heading...Opera, who should pay?
I call THEATRE! on myself. -
I think we are fleeced on books, CD's, DVD's as well. Licensing only came off in NZ about 15 years or so ago? The business model still exists (see Telecom, AKL Airport, etc).
Get into a monopoly with Govt. control and milk it. Sadly there is so much investment money offshore looking for a home (hat tip Rob S!) that NZ is under pressure from funds looking to get a piece of that sweet action. -
Most importers negotiate delayed payment, especially with China, it can be paid up to 3 months after landing. Also they have hedge funds, I'm expecting some to be hoping to ride the $NZD down soon, because you know, you can go both ways.
NZ importers seem to offer a special price premium, usually something like 150% on, because we are a cost plus lot. See 500.00 in the US is like 500.00 (say for a Mac), by the time it gets here (from Singapore, made in China) it will be say 1500.00 NZ, and that's 1500.00 in NZ, brilliant.