[lbo-talk] Dumb QOTD: What kind of labor produces intellectual property?

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 09:07:43 PDT 2011


Someone has to pay for Slavoj's aqua velva.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Sep 3, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
>
> > (It's not like the present copyright regime really is all that great
> > for producers. $6000 for the book Wall Street? Book authors often just
> > expect to somehow leverage money indirectly from the exposure their
> > books give them, like consulting jobs
>
> It was a great deal for Verso, which made something like $300,000 from the
> book.
>
> Doug



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