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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:45:10 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
CC: George Dance:
I found "The Dwarf" by Wallace Stevens in the archives and this is the
only thread in Nova BBS that appears to match:
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2010/01/dwarf-wallace-stevens.html
I posted this today in a different thread. This second post is
an
attempt to archive it in its own thread.
<Forward>
On Feb 19, 6:08 pm, Peter J Ross wrote:
Btw, have you taken down your pathetic, lying, moronic Web site
(hosted in the US) where you abuse US copyright law by stealing
Wallace Stevens's copyright poems?
Hint: Lawyers have already been consulted about your Wallace
Stevens
thiefsite.
George Dance wrote:
Then I'll have to assume the matter could be in litigation, and
not
comment on it publicly. So I'll have to ignore and/or snip
whatever
else you have to say about it, in this message and in the future.
Now that you're aware of that, any further usenet posts by you on
the
subject can only be regarded as pure trolling.
Ah, nostalgia.
Yes, that does bring back memories. The "Feb. 19" in PJ Ross's letter,
BTW, is Feb. 19, 2010. Penny's Poetry Blog went live on January 1, 2010;
on January 21, I blogged our first Stevens poem; within a month, PJ
Ross's gang of trolls was already making bogus copyright claims to
attempt to get poetry off the blog - attempts that that have never
stopped during the blog's existence.
I ignored them, for the most part, since they were based on an
misunderstanding of Canadian copyright law; here, all published poetry
by a poet who died before 1972 is in the public domain. It turns out I
was right to do so, since they never succeeded in getting any poems
removed.
(For the record, only one poem was ever removed from PPB due to a
copyright claim, by Skipwith Cannell's daughter, who told me it had
never been published. Since she had put the poem on a website herself, I replaced it with a link to her page.)
That could be why, when Team Monkey took up the attacks on the blog,
they switched strategy to getting living poets to demand I remove the
poems they had previously given me. Fortunately, TM was successful in convincing only two other poets.
After all that, ongoing now for 15 years, I am pleased to report that
the blog is alive and well and more popular than ever, with more than
750,000 pageviews in its history, and a good chance of breaking a
million views this year.
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