need a private publisher for my book

[CTyankee]

13. Going back to the argument "no better than stealing someone's car."

I have to smile at that. Not the "legal" argument. Let's say you write a song. I hear it and love it and want to sing it. What gives me the right to "reify" your beauty and sing it in the shower? But then I want to sing it to my friends when we are all at the beach together. Still OK? Well, I want to reify beauty by giving it to someone else so they will see it and love it (I hope).

This goes to what we rightly call "aesthetics." Of course, you wrote the song, no question. I cannot sing your song without "paying for the right to sing it," according to copyright law. Your argument seems to rest on the idea that it cannot be given away to another for their enjoyment. How many times is art sent from one person to another on their phones? Does anybody have the right to the song, hear it and send it from their phone to another's?

Note my little tag line at the bottom of my posts here at DU.