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Re: [cc-licenses] Kurt Vonnegut on words+pictures as a derivative work

From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <mako AT atdot.cc>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Kurt Vonnegut on words+pictures as a derivative work
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:00:44 -0400

<quote who="James Grimmelmann" date="Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:09:08AM -0400">
> Apropos of the (extensive) recent discussion on this list:
>
> "If only it weren't illustrated!" I said to Wirtanen angrily.
> "That makes a difference?" he said.
> "It's mutilation!" I said. "The pictures are bound to mutilate the
> words. Those words weren't meant to have pictures with them! With
> pictures, they aren't the same words!"
> --Kurt Vonnegut, _Mother Night_, ch. 36

Thanks James! I should reread Mother Night.

Later,
Mako

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[cc-licenses] Kurt Vonnegut on words+pictures as a derivative work, James Grimmelmann, 04/17/2007
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