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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday October 28 2015, @10:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-ring-to-rule-them-all dept.

"I never expected a money success," said Tolkien, pacing the room, as he does constantly when he speaks. "In fact, I never even thought of commercial publication when I wrote The Hobbit back in the Thirties.

"It all began when I was reading exam papers to earn a bit of extra money. That was agony. One of the tragedies of the underpaid professor is that he has to do menial jobs. He is expected to maintain a certain position and to send his children to good schools. Well, one day I came to a blank page in an exam book and I scribbled on it. 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

The piece is a pleasant read about the greatest fantasy writer of all time.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Francis on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:57AM

    by Francis (5544) on Thursday October 29 2015, @12:57AM (#255835)

    They will commission it, but any artist that can't find a patron has to produce the works on their own and for no pay at all. What's worse, once they produce the work, they then have no control over it. So, the work can be appropriated by obnoxious politicians or used to promote causes the artist doesn't support or be used to advertise commercial products.

    Copyright has some issues in terms of the length and the easy of filing questionable take down notices, but on the whole we're much better off because it exists. Copyrights don't just protect corporate interests, but they also protect the little guy from being taken advantage of by corporations. A well documented claim can be worth more than enough money to get attorneys willing to work on contingency.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @02:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 29 2015, @02:36AM (#255862)

    The concept of "moral rights" are independent of copyright. "Moral rights" deal with things like the right to attribution and preserving the integrity of the work.