My first questions for #mla12 #s450: must these sites continue perpetually? 15 years is a good run...
#mla12 #s450 claim also assumes that we now know all the potential uses for digitized texts moving forward. We don't.
#mla12 #s450: “It’s useful to digitize some texts but a waste of time to digitize some.” Claim privileges texts w/explicitly visual elements
Strangely enough, the publisher’s reassurance that new versions of C18 & C19 texts can also be copyrighted doesn’t satisfy #mla12 #s450
3rd talk in #mla12 #s450 from Faulkner’s publisher-that Faulkner still controlled by publishers illustrates the broken copyright system
Steve Railton demoing “Digital Yoknapatawpha” in #mla12 #s450 - work in progress w/lots of potential