Re: Statement to AAPC on Wallace Stevens poetry on The Betty Blog

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:45:10 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
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CC: George Dance:
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I found "The Dwarf" by Wallace Stevens in the archives and this is the
only thread in Nova BBS that appears to match:
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https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2010/01/dwarf-wallace-stevens.html
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 > > I posted this today in a different thread. This second post is
an
 > > attempt to archive it in its own thread.
 > >
 > > <Forward>
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 > > On Feb 19, 6:08 pm, Peter J Ross  wrote:
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 > > Btw, have you taken down your pathetic, lying, moronic Web site
 > > (hosted in the US) where you abuse US copyright law by stealing
 > > Wallace Stevens's copyright poems?
 > >
 > > Hint: Lawyers have already been consulted about your Wallace
Stevens
 > > thiefsite.
 > >
 > George Dance wrote:
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 > Then I'll have to assume the matter could be in litigation, and
not
 > comment on it publicly. So I'll have to ignore and/or snip
whatever
 > else you have to say about it, in this message and in the future.
 >
 > Now that you're aware of that, any further usenet posts by you on
the
 > subject can only be regarded as pure trolling.
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Ah, nostalgia.
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Yes, that does bring back memories. The "Feb. 19" in PJ Ross's letter,
BTW, is Feb. 19, 2010. Penny's Poetry Blog went live on January 1, 2010;
on January 21, I blogged our first Stevens poem; within a month, PJ
Ross's gang of trolls was already making bogus copyright claims to
attempt to get poetry off the blog - attempts that that have never
stopped during the blog's existence.
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I ignored them, for the most part, since they were based on an
misunderstanding of Canadian copyright law; here, all published poetry
by a poet who died before 1972 is in the public domain. It turns out I
was right to do so, since they  never succeeded in getting any poems
removed.
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(For the record, only one poem was ever removed from PPB due to a
copyright claim, by Skipwith Cannell's daughter, who told me it had
never been published. Since she had put the poem on a website herself, I
replaced it with a link to her page.)
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That could be why, when Team Monkey took up the attacks on the blog,
they switched strategy to getting living poets to demand I remove the
poems they had previously given me. Fortunately, TM was successful in
convincing only two other poets.
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After all that, ongoing now for 15 years, I am pleased to report that
the blog is alive and well and more popular than ever, with more than
750,000 pageviews in its history, and a good chance of breaking a
million views this year.