08-29-2012, 04:03 PM
which is pretty much my point, you said unless there's a moral issue involved.
i was pointing out that there would always be a moral issue involved should someone else claim your work as their own.
on the point of using an idea, or getting an inspiration from another poem, i see nothing wrong with that. isn't that one of the things poetry is all about our experiences and imaginings? how else would we get a lot of those things were it not for inspiration. poetic form isn't that mainly an inspirational concept; to write a sonnet in the style of Spencer or Shakespeare etc, and we do. but the words are our own, we can't make a poem up of 14 different Shakespearian lines of sonnets and claim it as our own. that's plagiarism and silly to boot. the same as copying verbatim whole phrases or simply rewriting someone elses poem but leaving most of the original words in.
i'm all for someone copying my poetry and sticking it on their own site, as long as they say. billy marsland wrote this poem, or A poem by w. marsland. it wouldn't really bother me if they tried to pass it off as their own apart from the fact it wouldn't be fair.
back to the moral issue of making cash out of it, that part i can understand...greed is big temptation i don't agree with it but it's something i can understand. i could never understand why people steal the works of others just so they can say "i wrote it, I'm rather good aren't I?"
i was pointing out that there would always be a moral issue involved should someone else claim your work as their own.
on the point of using an idea, or getting an inspiration from another poem, i see nothing wrong with that. isn't that one of the things poetry is all about our experiences and imaginings? how else would we get a lot of those things were it not for inspiration. poetic form isn't that mainly an inspirational concept; to write a sonnet in the style of Spencer or Shakespeare etc, and we do. but the words are our own, we can't make a poem up of 14 different Shakespearian lines of sonnets and claim it as our own. that's plagiarism and silly to boot. the same as copying verbatim whole phrases or simply rewriting someone elses poem but leaving most of the original words in.
i'm all for someone copying my poetry and sticking it on their own site, as long as they say. billy marsland wrote this poem, or A poem by w. marsland. it wouldn't really bother me if they tried to pass it off as their own apart from the fact it wouldn't be fair.
back to the moral issue of making cash out of it, that part i can understand...greed is big temptation i don't agree with it but it's something i can understand. i could never understand why people steal the works of others just so they can say "i wrote it, I'm rather good aren't I?"