----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <har...@ecs.soton.ac.uk> To: <american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:00 PM Subject: Re: PostGutenberg Copyrights and Wrongs for Give-Away Research
............. > In the earlier, pre-codification "oral tradition," when the only > "product" that poets, tale-tellers and musicians had in mind was their own > real-time performance skill (a "service," I suppose), all they wanted was > payment for their time! Their lifetime benefits came from the reputation > of their performing skills, and I suppose they thought of those as their > only legacy too. In fact, there are examples of such people embedding their identity into their poetry in such a way that others could not perform their poems without giving due recognition to the original creator of the work. Recognition as always been as powerful a motivator as financial reward, and as strong an influence on the development of systems for asserting ownership. Colin Day
