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and the @!$#@&*! machine did die - but I'd hit 'post' a nanosecond before!
Anyway - further clarifications? More intimate revelations apropos royalties/rates/extreme nastiness on the part of publishers/CLL? Here is your deep throat-
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Keir - no worries...as you & Sacha & the Grok have pointed out, there was already a kind of trail.
I'm working on my Apple lemon (o yes! There are such-) so I hope it doesnt freeze as it's done several times over the past months: Mark, there are quite a few comments I could make apropos going from one medium to another, and whether this what makes a living culture, and, indeed, whether your personal tussle with something that doesnt quite work in one medium might be made to work in another (except it would - forgive me, I'm paraphrasing- be a betrayal of characters/story to do that) *but*
I'll just go here: no book/story/painting/film is *static* because copyright prevents people stealing (it's not just 'using') another person's creation: if what you create works in any way, it works in people's heads. It is vital, vibrant, alive, everytime it works in someone's head. And - as you rightly say- 'none of us create in a vacuum - hell, we use language/s for a kick-off!)
I would add, of course I didnt expect my first novel to errm, *spread* the way it did. It -just happened
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O, and really important Sacha-
best catch to date here was nearly 10kg for the tide - and that was two big fit 'baiters plying nets on the north bank, and a 10yrold looking after the sock net, and - not least - a cleaner-sorter making sure the catch was ready for me to cook (being currently unable to 'bait.)
= still not running - yet!
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Keir - um sorry, I use the name Islander on the net a lot (it's the literal translation of my surname which, yeah, is holm/ hulme/home.) I would totally go along with state funding for established people-who-create-art. There is the Irish option - you dont pay tax on royalties. There is the Scandanavian option - you recieve a stipend up until your yearly earnings reach a certain threshold. Either would - I think - benefit people who are serious about what they do. And I rarely meet creative people who a) arnt serious about what they do and b)havent already given up a hell of a lot of normal expectations for what they could expect to receive for their works.
But - we're then looking at increased bureacracy & administration costs...
Sacha - your suggestion was creative and original- but I truly cant see better - for the moment - suggestions that I offer here. (And my 'curl-up&die' post of yestereve was part tongue in cheek, and part arthritis kicking me around - sorry!)
For the record, I earn 10% - or less - for any copy of any of my books that are sold here, or overseas.
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Mark Harris - one of my books has brought in many *thousands* ofpaying tourists who come here because of it (and I dont mean just to the Coast.) And -while the area gains benefit from their presence - I dont.
No one owes me a living? Right - but my *work* provides a *lot* of other people with - at least- enhancement for *their* living - and I get very little recompense for that.
I think you know diddlysquat about the literary game-
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Mark Harris "And the only person who has to esteem it to give it value is you, mmkay?"
And that feeds me & mine, right?
Sacha, pretty well every bureaucrat I've ever had dealings with - and an Intellectual Property Bank would be a bureaucrat's wet dream - is earning more than I am - with way fewer expenses. Sorry, cant see how your idea helps us at t'coalface-
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OK, I'll give up, just go away and die - because very obviously what I do is not esteemed (sure as shit even now isnt paid for!) and isnt important in any way,
*use* ANY of my characters and I'lll try to financially kill you -Mark, we are not talking series, we are talking charcaters that are known, unique, pertinent--
Sacha-the only ways we have now for protection of creative work involve copyright. I am so tired & disgusted by the whole set up-
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Mark H - thanks v. much for those site addresses.
Lyndon Hood - in response to your question 'Why should anyone have to pay (me)?" Intellectual property rights.
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My Grandmother Range is as interesting as pretty well everyones'-
Nanna was born in Waianakarua, was schooled (up until Standard 6) in Totara ( both south of Oamaru) and travelled north as far as Christchurch and the odd tiki-tour into North Canterbury including Hanmer Springs; and south as far as Rakiura. She never flew in a plane, never ventured into the North Island...
Her parents had ventured forth from the Orkneys but, once arriving in Dunedin in the late 1860s, never went further north than Oamaru.
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Thanks for those suggestions Russell - I've tried Talisker in a couple of different year-bottlings (and certainly enjoyed those) but those 2 sound exponentially better...