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Who’s Afraid of Sonny Bono?
In an earlier post I wondered about the legitimacy of current copyright law and was reminded of that fact this morning when I ran across a post by Matt Yglesias dealing with the same issue. His whole post and the links it includes are well worth reading, but here’s the nub of it: The point of intellectual property law is to benefit consumers, not producers.Read More
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“Mr. Yeats, Meet Mr. Freud” (but not Mr. Ashbery)
The works of Yeats and Freud are now available online thanks to the expiration of their copyrights. (Thanks to Jilly Dybka’s Poetry Hut Blog for this one.) Thanks to the greed-driven expansion of copyright protections future readers will have to wait a good deal longer to access the complete works of Ashbery (for example) online and for free.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
