Re: Academics and coursepacks

Michael Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
>
> The pieces may be there, but it will take an architect (not a
> repairman) to re-create the original.

Even if this were the case with Shakespeare (and it sounds more like the reconstruction of a lost ancient work from quotations and derivative versions) the "architect" is reconstructing SOMEONE ELSE's authorship.

A scholar of Shakespeare (or Hippolytus, or Irenaeus, or St. Patrick) shouldn't have it both ways. If he's restoring what Shakespeare wrote, then by definition what the result is not an original work of the scholar's own authorship, but of Shakespeare's. Copyright should be denied, regardless of how much work the scholar expends in establishing the text.

Tim Phillips
<hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> Received on Mon Jul 13 1998 - 13:44:01 GMT