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Originally Posted by GeoffC
From A to O - a lot of "thou must" - but who can stop the determined?
In this world in which we live, there is only one way to prevent work being copied/manipulated, and that is to not post it - in an electronic format [ in which case you've defeated yourself ]. Even work in print is copied; even if only to provide an electronic version to read 
Even artwork with copyright symbols across them are successfully pinched (go read many DeviantArt posts). |
You've just reminded me of what Vonnengut said about artistic creativity, and I'm half remembering this from a video of a talk he gave.
He told the audience to go home and write a poem, spend time on each line, get it as perfect as possible so that it was as near to perfect as possible in their eyes. Then he told them to take that poem, rip it up and throw it in the trash.
The idea being that creation is the reward and anything beyond the creation meant very little. Once you'd finished with the creation it was truly out of your hands from thereon in. I suppose that's where I want to be, and where I feel we're going, and what I want to make happen.