thread: 2012-03-03 : Ben Lehman: Caveat Scriba: Margret Weis Productions
On 2012-03-04, Ben Lehman wrote:
Joe:
1) I'm not going to give specifics. I promised the people that I talked to that I would protect their anonymity. And given the shit that is getting hurled at me (who is involved pretty much only as an anonymizer), I am wholly unsurprised at their desire to remain anonymous. If you want to know who people are, I encourage you to do research on your own. This is not hard.
2) My point on ethics clearly didn't come across to you. Let me try again. The primary point is that it is, clearly, unethical to buy a product for which its creator hasn't been properly compensated*. Secondarily, in the case of a creator-owned product, this particular ethical problem is not present.
Sage:
3) The word "uniformly" is, in the context of comments on this post, inaccurate. "Frequently" or perhaps "commonly" would be better choices.
yrs—
—Ben
* What constitutes proper compensation is beyond bounds here: but promising payment and then not paying is clearly not proper compensation.
