Re: RAT Response Desired

["Erik Ehn" <shadowtackle@worldnet.att.net>]

Dear Independents:

     You may also want to consider taking your names off the scripts, or allowing student co-authors to list themselves as writers alongside you. This may also mean abandoning copyright and royalty claims in some cases - again in the spirit of Moliere, Euripedes and Shakespeare, who worked when thievery greatly enriched the cultural milieu. In production environments where culture is Culture and the haves are flush, go ahead and stand by name and text. Where fast and loose provides the juice, the faster and looser the better.The better the text the more common its ownership (?) - in seventy five years, when Beckett is in the public domain, his work will be a collective dream, Beckett will start to disappear just like Homer.

e