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Re: Read it and creep
I agree that the tone of that letter isn't exactly in tune with me; however, I still think the advice is good. When a writer is thinking about the proper disposition of work, the starting point has to be, "I made this, it's mine--what do I want to be done with it?" (Oddly enough, I'm on the cbp list [from which the letter came], and I took Ivan to task for some of his follow-up comments, explaining my attitude thusly: "It's similar to populist disgust at wealth accumulated over generations as opposed to populist pleasure at seeing the producer rewarded for his or her work.") But keep in mind the context of the letter: Ivan was using a current event in the course of explaining once again to creators that they should know all their rights and give away nothing. There are a lot of very poor musicians who didn't listen to this advice and very fat record companies in whose interest it was to make sure musicians never heard such advice. Given that Eldred is now (and I'm not happy about this) the law of the land, the stakes in the creator/suit struggle are now much higher, and the advice is better all the time.
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