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Um, I was brought up to say 'iss-u'...
Here in the wilds, 'yishoo' seems to rule... -
Kia ora Paul - the thing was set up in the early 1970s to recompense authors for loss of earnings for books held in public libraries: part of the original proposal was that this could be enough to provide support for authors during their fallow periods (i.e when they are writing other books.) It was originally administered by a subcommittee of the Literary Advisory committee (mainly writers/publishers/literary academics) but was reluctantly taken over by the QE2 -cum-Creative NZ organisation (run mainly by bureacrats with substantial input from academics and, less so. working artists.)
Authors received a set amount for the number of each title of books held in public libraries in ANZ (you had to have over 50 copies to qualify.) Initially -I understand (I didnt start getting monies until 1983) -the set amount was very helpful, but with hugely increased number of authors (hooray!) and illustrators (hmmm) now deriving monies, and a reduced amount of funding from government (despite the spin that it has increased) it is now a useful amount (in my case, about $4000 - less than what it was in 2006, but still over a quarter of my earnings) rather than a 'keep-you-writing- eh?' sum.
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O sweet! never come across xkcd's site before-
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Double heh! Best wordplay star award-
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Heh!
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Maybe this should go as a spelling tip over in the Readers' Tips system... sewage is the shiat, and sewerage is the system that ca*rr*ies
such stuff away. A sewer is part of a sewerage system and should not be confused with a sewer (one who sews...) -
Kia ora Paul- is 'this arrangement' the Authors' Fund?
Or my personal situation?
I dont want to bring my experiences to a public forum because I dont think they'd be all that helpful to either a discussion or other artists: however, I am very happy to discuss the Authors' Fund (which I note has not had proposed new legislation even referred to a select committee yet.) -
Gag! Argh! That person had obviously never been to Dunedin! (which is, of course, the cultural capital of the ANZ!)
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"I would emphasise that ARTISTS of every kind are not well supported"
by any political party's policies so far-
an example: in 2006 anonymous people within Creative NZ decided
that illustrators should have the same funding rights as writers: the net result was writers' payments fron the AUTHORS fund were diminished by over a third. Great hoohah recently that because of a $500000 increase to the Authors' Fund (that was was really nice of the Government, wasnt it?) we will now get a payment in 2008 that
IS STILL LESS THAN WE GOT IN 2006...I am an established writer. I've brought a lot of business into Aotearoa-NZ. I earn less than the average wage and I resent bureaucrats & academics using what I do, and have done, to live fatly whilst me & mine - dont.
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There was so much culture before 1999...we go back to about 1250? And we work forward...my definition of culture is very broad: it includes everything from furniture to cooking and all kinds of poetry;domestic arts (by which I mean embroidery, weaving, knitting, taniko(have you ever seen black-on-black taniko? Waua!)) and architecture, carving,rock-art, playwrighting, storytelling of other kinds,including film-making and other stuff that newer techologies enable artists to explore. And I'd whack in strange (to outsiders) sports - dog-trialling for instance.
I would emphasise that ARTISTS of every kind are not well-supported
(every arts administrator I know of earns more than I do) and so, as we grow older, more tired at trying to establish the usefulness of what we do, we give up in our various unsupported ways...excuse me while I go slosh down another whiskey-Mac...