{"id":13184,"date":"2012-01-22T11:48:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T16:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13184"},"modified":"2012-01-22T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T16:50:07","slug":"paulo-coelho-pirate-my-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/paulo-coelho-pirate-my-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulo Coelho: Pirate my work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulocoelhoblog.com\/2012\/01\/20\/welcome-to-pirate-my-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paulo Coelho<\/a> finds himself on the opposite side of an issue from where he &#8220;should be&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As an author, I should be defending \u2018intellectual property\u2019, but I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I\u2019ve ever written!<\/p>\n<p>The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. First, because all anyone ever does is recycle the same four themes: a love story between two people, a love triangle, the struggle for power, and the story of a journey. Second, because all writers want what they write to be read, whether in a newspaper, blog, pamphlet, or on a wall.<\/p>\n<p>The more often we hear a song on the radio, the keener we are to buy the CD. It\u2019s the same with literature.<\/p>\n<p>The more people \u2018pirate\u2019 a book, the better. If they like the beginning, they\u2019ll buy the whole book the next day, because there\u2019s nothing more tiring than reading long screeds of text on a computer screen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/doctorow\/statuses\/161061286258548737\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulo Coelho finds himself on the opposite side of an issue from where he &#8220;should be&#8221;: As an author, I should be defending \u2018intellectual property\u2019, but I\u2019m not. Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I\u2019ve ever written! The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. First, because all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,10,28,15],"tags":[135,241,468,134],"class_list":["post-13184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","category-technology","tag-copyright","tag-intellectualproperty","tag-piracy","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3qE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13186,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184\/revisions\/13186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}