[New-Poetry] Can't Cope With Copyright Infringement

[JforJames at aol.com]

_http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2223830,00.html_ 
(http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2223830,00.html) 
You  like my poems? So pay for them
 
Wendy Cope is outraged to find her work all over the internet 
 
Saturday December 8, 2007
The Guardian 
 
One summer's day, strolling through a cemetery, my partner and I had a  
conversation about what we would like on our gravestones. He suggested that mine  sh
ould read: "Wendy Cope. All Rights Reserved."

He knows all too well that I am obsessed with copyright. A poem is very  easy 
to copy, whereas nobody is going to photocopy or download a whole novel or  
work of non-fiction. Poets are thus especially at risk if people do not know 
and  respect copyright law.
 
The authors of short, funny poems are especially vulnerable. 



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