Learning the Hard Way

I added the big corporate names to my list of star copyright offenders on my copyright issues page accessible through my statements link at the bottom of this post. Here is a list of violators of my copyrights who can afford to pay me big bucks in compensation. By the way, I thought MacDonnell-Douglas's video for Bird of Prey was a rush. Of all the violations of my music, theirs was perhaps the most tasteful. If only we could have come to a legitimate arrangement for the use of my song in that video. I'd have been proud to have such a majestic aircraft named after one of my songs. And it's important to include the name of Telus among the violators of my work if only to explain why I have no home connection. The cable company, given its own culpability in this affair, affords no safe alternative for me as an internet service provider. I hope the rock radio has stopped playing Blue Rodeo's violations of my 2007 YouTube account. As I was just telling rock radio listeners just a few weeks ago, their station makes them hate me. When the radio has people loving a fraud for something I wrote, it turns the whole crowd into my enemy. After ten years of this now, I consider myself an expert on the subject. Back in 2004 when I was cutting my teeth as an author of poems and short stories, I wrote: Bring on your archers, fellow bards My heart invites their plunging pain For what is time without a wound To give it measure but inane? Bring on your terror, beloved foes I'd rather run for want of aim Than play an idle waiting game My heart is filled with triumph new I owe it most of all to you I'd just finished reading a biography of Dostoyevsky that talked about his time in the gulag and I pined for some similar kind of strife in my own life to give my work an edge. I suppose I should be careful what I wish for because my last thirteen years of total misery have more than answered this need. Rock and roll gained its edge initially through the trials of black Americans in a racist society. Without anyone being the victim of some kind of horror or injustice, there is little to distinguish one author's work from the next. What set my work apart, then, is my struggle against such overwhelming injustice. And while those who've been caught and prosecuted now may know the shame of public rejection, they will never know how it feels to have such shame imposed on them when they are innocent. This knowledge and the authority it adds to my work will set me apart forever among the authors of my time. 12:22pm: I'm heading home now after linking up the titles on my notices of copyright violations for The Nefarious Broadcasting Corporation, Weapons and Entertainment Arsenal, and The National Bullcrapping Corporation. I imagine I will be able to get everything linked up the way I want and all the lists finalized beside each offender's name in my star copyright offenders list in time for my meeting with my new lawyer. He said I must undergo an orientation and I've been trying to imagine it. Maybe they'll say something like, 'okay Dave, we'll let you have your money but you must stop calling the business a parasite.' Or maybe they'll say, 'we'll let you be a star but you must stop calling the media a sex offender.' For the kind of money and fame that I have coming, such a compromise strikes me as entirely acceptable, so you may expect a possible softening of my stance as I attempt to undergo the transition from being a poor isolated crime victim to a widely respected public figure. 6:11pm: I just added the rest of that poem for this post. It was first authored and shared in 2004 under the title Bring on Your Archers. If anyone else has had their name on it since then, please put the offender behind bars.
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