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When Poetry is Pirated, You Can Blame April Fool’s

From Seth Godin’s When poets get angry: “By now, Poetree.coop has probably been shut down. While it lasted, it was the best-designed, richest source of p2p poetry sharing available online. Only a typical lunk-headed heavy-handed ploy by the inner circle of poets was able to shut it down. All the classics were there: Rod McKuen, Roald Dahl, even the Dr. (Seuss) himself. In addition, you could find the complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and even Thomas Moore. So, amidst all of these gems, what happened? Why the controversy? Alisha Grant, spokesperson for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, had this to say, ‘We applaud the work of the FBI in shutting down this travesty of copyright. If we want great poetry, America, we’re going to have to pay for it.’”

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