Extremely disappointed by this move of Dylan's. As a recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature, he should understand what value his songs have for humanity as a whole, and consider giving them to mankind by emancipating them into the Public Domain.
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Instead, he preferred to keep them locked under copyright for many decades to come, by selling them in exchange for a large sum of money to a predatory company. What cultural, artistic or social values was Dylan supposed to stand for, again? The times they aren't a-changin'!
This is particularly disappointing given that D. himself recognized the value of imitating others (and was criticized for doing so). From his Nobel speech: “By listening to all the early folk artists and singing the songs yourself, you pick up the vernacular. You internalize it.”
Contrast this with Woody Guthrie, Dylan's idol, who entered the copyright record for ‘This Land is Your Land’ as such: “and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing to it.”
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