Dude, I'll help you get the derived-from-Austen market to die if you'll help me KILL THE FREAKING CHICKS-WITH-GUNS urban fantasy market already. Seriously. That "chick with gun who sleeps with vampires!" concept needs to die in a freaking fire, like yesterday.
the general population is so ignorant about copyright it's a like scary
You mean, above and beyond how terrifying it is to see the level of ignorance required to a) argue freedom of speech is something other than, well, what it really is, and b) to completely ignore that it only covers you if you're American? That kind of level of ignorance in the general population?
Although frankly, I can sort of forgive general ignorance, since copyright law is incredibly complex. It's when I run across authors -- published authors! -- busy parroting the very edges of Really Freaking Ignorant that I start doing the gnashing of the teeth.
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Date: 5 Jun 2010 01:02 am (UTC)the general population is so ignorant about copyright it's a like scary
You mean, above and beyond how terrifying it is to see the level of ignorance required to a) argue freedom of speech is something other than, well, what it really is, and b) to completely ignore that it only covers you if you're American? That kind of level of ignorance in the general population?
Although frankly, I can sort of forgive general ignorance, since copyright law is incredibly complex. It's when I run across authors -- published authors! -- busy parroting the very edges of Really Freaking Ignorant that I start doing the gnashing of the teeth.