The Editorials & Commentary section of The Philadelphia Inquirer has One By Daniel Hoffman, ex Poet Laureate of the United States. He says it’s not his obligation to tell the Nabobs of Digitization to lay off my books. Under the law, they are obliged to ask his permission to transform my poems and essays into electrical impulses.
“None of us is on principle opposed to the dissemination of knowledge. But we also uphold a cognate principle: the just recompense of the creators of the works disseminated. If some scheme akin to the royalties we receive for the sale of our printed works, and for the inclusion of excerpts in anthologies and textbooks, could be devised for their being googled, we’d certainly welcome it.“
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