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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2012/04/pagan-community-notes-a-pagan-library-in-dc-a-cog-councils-uncertain-future-z-budapest-asserts-copyright-and-more.html
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Z. Budapest Wants “Theft” of “We All Come From The Goddess” to Stop: Dianic elder Z. Budapest has issued a statement calling for an end to alternate versions and unlicensed recordings of her chant “We All Come From The Goddess,” saying that, quote, “It is my intellectual property. it is NOT a folk song, which by the way is the fate of many composers whose songs are stolen.” Budapest further stated that to “steal my song from now will have consequences. You put men into the song, like God, a hex will be activated.”
...um. Really, Z? Really?
It may be true that it's her intellectual property and she has a legal right to assert copyright and seek action against those using it without her permission. But uh, derivative works and parodies, fair use, much? (Someone in the comments cited some kind of religious-use exception, too.) Even if not, it seems like the barn doors have stood open well too long on this (decades) - good luck actually enforcing it, even if it is her legal right. But employing malefic magic against anyone who dares to sully it with maleness...?
Comments on the post are interesting, although Kenaz Filan seems to have quite a nasty bug up his butt. I don't think hate and vitriol are helpful, even if understandable, but ... well, yeah, Z seems to have really gone off the deep end by this point, if she hadn't already.
Third item in the post:
Z. Budapest Wants “Theft” of “We All Come From The Goddess” to Stop: Dianic elder Z. Budapest has issued a statement calling for an end to alternate versions and unlicensed recordings of her chant “We All Come From The Goddess,” saying that, quote, “It is my intellectual property. it is NOT a folk song, which by the way is the fate of many composers whose songs are stolen.” Budapest further stated that to “steal my song from now will have consequences. You put men into the song, like God, a hex will be activated.”
...um. Really, Z? Really?
It may be true that it's her intellectual property and she has a legal right to assert copyright and seek action against those using it without her permission. But uh, derivative works and parodies, fair use, much? (Someone in the comments cited some kind of religious-use exception, too.) Even if not, it seems like the barn doors have stood open well too long on this (decades) - good luck actually enforcing it, even if it is her legal right. But employing malefic magic against anyone who dares to sully it with maleness...?
Comments on the post are interesting, although Kenaz Filan seems to have quite a nasty bug up his butt. I don't think hate and vitriol are helpful, even if understandable, but ... well, yeah, Z seems to have really gone off the deep end by this point, if she hadn't already.