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Originally Posted by kennyc
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.
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I was being silly, of course, because I think the original topic at hand is presented in a tongue-in-cheek way - but there are thousands of songs in my head, too that I can remember because the radio stations overplayed them. "Moves like Jagger" is embedded into my skull whether I like it or not. I didn't even have to pay for the experience there
In fact, they may owe ME money for altering the natural thought patterns that would have been in my head, had I not been interrupted by the song :-)