The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.2108  Friday, 31 October 2003

[1]     From:   Allan Axelrod <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
        Date:   Thursday, 30 Oct 2003 10:46:45 -0500
        Subj:   Re: SHK 14.2098 Shakespeare's "first serious critic" revealed by
Stanley in TLS

[2]     From:   Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
        Date:   Thursday, 30 Oct 2003 12:50:37 -0500
        Subj:   Re: SHK 14.2098 Shakespeare's "first serious critic" revealed by
Stanley in TLS


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From:           Allan Axelrod <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Thursday, 30 Oct 2003 10:46:45 -0500
Subject: 14.2098 Shakespeare's "first serious critic" revealed
Comment:        Re: SHK 14.2098 Shakespeare's "first serious critic" revealed
by Stanley in TLS

This thread is going afield

The legal fact that someone could, with impunity,  use her
newly-discovered WS   quarto for  kindling leads some threaders to say:
'there ought to be a law!!'.  Her children, with normal thoughts about
money, on discovering her intention would quickly have her property put
into guardianship.   Anyway don't get too upset about the lack of
criminal sanctions for quarto-destruction:  if people began to use their
newly-discovered quartos for kindling, there would be a law pretty
fast.  True, it might take a couple of quartos on the way, but don't we
have enough Shakespeareiana on hand already to satisfy all but
acquisitive collectors and scholars?

Allan Axelrod

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From:           Larry Weiss <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Thursday, 30 Oct 2003 12:50:37 -0500
Subject: 14.2098 Shakespeare's "first serious critic" revealed
Comment:        Re: SHK 14.2098 Shakespeare's "first serious critic" revealed
by Stanley in TLS

>I'd just like to clarify the question of
>"moral rights".  This wouldn't ban the destruction of any item.  What it
>bans is the republication of an item either without crediting the true
>author, or with alterations  which the author does not approve of.

Actually, depending on the circumstances, destruction, alteration,
non-attribution and false attribution may all violate the act.  See 17
USC 106A.

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