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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
What about poem piracy? I used to be graded on my ability to retain and recite entire copyrighted poems from memory.
There are hundreds of poems I will never need to buy a book to keep. My brain contains thousands of dollars of lost sales.  |
But if you PERFORMED those poems by reciting them on stage for pay, I believe you might be liable to pay performance fees....I'm actually not certain about that though....I know it would be true for music....there may be no agency that collects performance fees for poems.
I suspect that if someone with perfect memory were to recite a bestselling novel (particularly for pay) the lawyers would be all over them.
Personal use is one thing, performance, sharing, copying is a completely different thing.