[LON-CAPA-users] Fwd: [WDL] Steal This Poem
Helen Keefe
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:38:57 -0400
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Hi,
I thought this poem might be adopted by lon-capa.
Helen
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> From: Susan Pritchard <suzzie_uk@YAHOO.COM>
> Date: July 20, 2005 5:33:52 AM EDT
> To: WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [WDL] Cory Doctorow: Download this book! /Steal This Poem
> Reply-To: WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>
>
>> from
>>
>> <http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2004/10/298739.html>
>>
>> Steal This Poem v1.2
>>
>> This poem is copyleft,
>> you are free to distribute it, and diffuse it
>> dismantle it, and abuse it
>> reproduce it, and improve it
>> and use it
>> for your own ends
>> and with your own ending
>>
>>
>> This is an open source poem
>> Entering the public domain
>> Here's the source code,
>> the rest remains
>> for you to shape, stretch and bend
>> add some salt and pepper if you want
>> share it out amongst your friends
>>
>>
>> Because I didn't write this poem, I molded it.
>> picked up the lines out of a skip and refolded it
>> as I was walking on over here,
>> rescued leftover ideas,
>> on their way to landfill,
>> found screwed up fragments
>> and found them a use.
>>
>>
>> Because, think about it
>> I can't tell you anything truly new.
>> There can only be fe! w more new ideas to be thought through.
>> So should we treat them as rare commodities, high value oddities?
>> Probe the arctic reserves and other sensitive ecologies
>> for new ideas buried deep beneath the permafrost?
>> hunt them out of the cultures till the cultures are lost?
>> then suffocate them with patent protection?
>> No! we should re use and recycle them
>> Pile our public spaces high with ideas beyond anyone's imagining..
>>
>>
>> So I steal a riff here and a rhyme there,
>> a verse here and a line there
>> pass them on around the circle,
>> roll the words, add a joke
>> here go on.. have a toke,
>> does it get you high?
>> This poem is indebted to Abbie Hoffman, Gil Scott Heron, Jim Thomas
>> and Sarah Jones,
>> This poem is indebted to all the words I've read and the voices I've
>> known
>> This poem is a composite of intellect, yours and mine.
>> This poem is RIPPED OFF! every single time
>>
>>
>> Because intellectual property is theft
>> and pira! cy our only defence left against the thought police.
>> when no thought is new
>> its just rewired, refined, remastered and reproduced
>> The revolution will be plagiarised
>> The revolution will not happen if our ideas are corporatised.
>> So STEAL THIS POEM
>> Take it and use it
>> for your own ends
>> and with your own ending
>>
>> This poem is copyleft,
>> All rights are reversed
>>
>>
>> Claire Fauset Hammer n Tongue
>> Homepage: <http://www.hammerandtongue.org/>
>>
>> __________________
>
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Hi,
I thought this poem might be adopted by lon-capa.
Helen
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</color></bold>Susan Pritchard <<suzzie_uk@YAHOO.COM>
<bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>Date: </color></bold>July
20, 2005 5:33:52 AM EDT
<bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>To:
</color></bold>WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
<bold><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>Subject: </color>Re: [WDL]
Cory Doctorow: Download this book! /Steal This Poem
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>Reply-To:
</color></bold>WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
<excerpt>from
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Steal This Poem v1.2
This poem is copyleft,
you are free to distribute it, and diffuse it
dismantle it, and abuse it
reproduce it, and improve it
and use it
for your own ends
and with your own ending
This is an open source poem
Entering the public domain
Here's the source code,
the rest remains
for you to shape, stretch and bend
add some salt and pepper if you want
share it out amongst your friends
Because I didn't write this poem, I molded it.
picked up the lines out of a skip and refolded it
as I was walking on over here,
rescued leftover ideas,
on their way to landfill,
found screwed up fragments
and found them a use.
Because, think about it
I can't tell you anything truly new.
There can only be fe! w more new ideas to be thought through.
So should we treat them as rare commodities, high value oddities?
Probe the arctic reserves and other sensitive ecologies
for new ideas buried deep beneath the permafrost?
hunt them out of the cultures till the cultures are lost?
then suffocate them with patent protection?
No! we should re use and recycle them
Pile our public spaces high with ideas beyond anyone's imagining..
So I steal a riff here and a rhyme there,
a verse here and a line there
pass them on around the circle,
roll the words, add a joke
here go on.. have a toke,
does it get you high?
This poem is indebted to Abbie Hoffman, Gil Scott Heron, Jim Thomas
and Sarah Jones,
This poem is indebted to all the words I've read and the voices I've
known
This poem is a composite of intellect, yours and mine.
This poem is RIPPED OFF! every single time
Because intellectual property is theft
and pira! cy our only defence left against the thought police.
when no thought is new
its just rewired, refined, remastered and reproduced
The revolution will be plagiarised
The revolution will not happen if our ideas are corporatised.
So STEAL THIS POEM
Take it and use it
for your own ends
and with your own ending
This poem is copyleft,
All rights are reversed
Claire Fauset <bold>Hammer n Tongue</bold>
<bold>Homepage:</bold>
<color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param><<http://www.hammerandtongue.org/></color>
__________________
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</excerpt>Helen Keefe
ITR Project Coordinator
Michigan State University
Laboratory for Instructional Technology in Education
112 North Kedzie Labs
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-432-9867
517-432-5653 (fax)
helen@lon-capa.org
http://www.lon-capa.org
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