7. In the 19th and early 20th century in the United States (and indeed up till the present in the United Kingdom) it was common to portray the Irish as simians.pic.twitter.com/gSjcAlyfVn
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7. In the 19th and early 20th century in the United States (and indeed up till the present in the United Kingdom) it was common to portray the Irish as simians.pic.twitter.com/gSjcAlyfVn
8. The Irish Simian lives on in two very popular characters: the American everyman Homer Simpson & the Grinch (which Michelle Abate traces back to images like this 19th drawing of Bridget McBruiser).pic.twitter.com/5ZTcKOf9RL
9. I was dissatisfied with both sides of the Seuss wars. Unlike lunkheads like Ted Cruz, I wouldn't ever show the racist ooga-booga images to kids. But I don't want the books to go out of print either; cultural history is too important. The books should stay in print for adults.
What is your line for which books should stay in print? All books ever published? All books ever written? Should publishers publish literally every book ever submitted to them forever? At what point can books no longer be printed? Where is the line drawn?
It would be good to have digital copies of all books ever printed that anyone can access.
So free? And not actually published but a digitized library? Do the discontinued Suess books now no longer exist in any form? Because that's very different from "a publisher chooses not to publish physical versions of these books anymore."
All old books should be in an easily accessible digital library. Books of historical and literary interest should be kept in print by enterprises like Library of America, university presses etc. Since Seuss is a historically important creator, he'd be covered by that.
But would all of his books be covered? And since his foundation decided that these books don't represent what they believe he would have wanted, where is the problem. Do these books really have a huge cultural importance? They still exist.
I don't think a corporate enterprise should decide if a book published in 1937 by an author dead for 3 decades should be available or not. If scholars want to make an archival edition, they should be free to do so.
But it's the company that holds the rights to his books. Are you saying a publisher should not have the right to decide what it should publish? They aren't destroying every copy ever. They just don't want to sell new copies of these books anymore.
I think we should reform copyright law. The current copyright regime is a creation of law and not a natural reality. As such it can be changed.
But that wasn't the argument you were making. You said they shouldn't go out of print, which is different from offering digitized free versions. I'm not sure I completely agree, but this is a more reasonable proposition.
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