bcressey wrote:
I would contact the author...
Thanks. I think I will, if I can find his contact information anywhere. I think he or his publisher has gone to some length to shield him from correspondence, as he's one of the most popular American poets of today. And no, I won't quote without permission.
Robert Rothman wrote:
"Video games are things played by unwashed teenagers who don't know how to read and instead pretend to shoot at each other."
I imagined that going through their heads too. Incidentally, I'm an unwashed teenager, but the rest doesn't apply to me. Actually, I'm technically not a teenager anymore either, but only by several months.
matt w wrote:
One possibility would be (perhaps next time) to try saying that it will be used as the epigraph for a piece of interactive fiction, or hypertext literature, or what not.
I would normally call it interactive fiction, but I used
textual video game because I didn't want to alienate the folks in the rights office by referring directly to a medium and community they probably hadn't heard of.
Electronic literature might have been a good compromise.
shammack wrote:
How do they know it's not consistent? You said nothing about the content of the game.
Tell me about it!
shammack wrote:
By the way, why redact the names of the publisher, poet, and poem?
It wasn't really a
private conversation, but I didn't think publisher expected it to be public either, so redaction felt like the ethical thing to do.
Finn Rosenløv wrote:
At least you got an answer.
Yeah, I didn't really even expect to get one. I firmly believe that there should be some sort of compulsory copyright release system for this sort of thing, whereby anyone willing to pay a certain government-established rate to the copyright holder. If there actually is such a system, and I've failed to notice it, I hope someone will educate me!
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