Hooray for Jane
I received an inspirational email forward today. I don’t think it’s inspirational the way the forwarder intended, exactly, but it picked my spirits up nonetheless.
> 6. The tears happen.
Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. (Jane says,” I disagree. If we have received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, He is with us always. He has promised, I will never leave you nor forsake you.”)
Out of the great roiling mass of names through whose hands this bit of treacle passed, Jane decided to add her own editorial comment. I’m not being patronizing here–Jane has broken the new rules, after all, considering that this text, if it isn’t already under copyright, could easily be claimed as such if the anonymous author had the lawyers.
Before 1998, Jane could cite the 1886 Berne Convention in her defense. Initiated by Victor Hugo (!), the conference laid the foundation for international copyright law and included rudimentary protections for fair use. But in the post-1998 Mickeymouse era, looks like Jane’s a rebel….