On Sep 5, 2017, at 3:24 PM, Ilan Garibi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Do we really ask a permission from every writer to read his book in front > of our class? It doesn't make sense at all, just like with any other > creation. Do we ask permission from a painter to talk about his paintings > in class? > Ilan Garibi I totally agree and second Ilan’s thoughts. In the past I used the same analogy as this questions surfaces time and again. We don’t ask permission to the authors of text books in a chemistry class, or a biology class, We don’t call Sony records (or whoever holds the copyright) to use The Beatles’s scores to teach their music in a conservatory teaching room. We do, and should, of course, ask for permission if the music will be played in an auditorium or be broadcast, etc. As for a teacher receiving a payment for his time and teaching skills, why not? He is not receiving a payment for creating a model, he should be paid, and encouraged to request a payment for he has received an education (either self-educated or formally) and because he is putting into practice pedagogic tools, he knows how to conduct a class, etc. Anyone believes he doesn't deserve a payment for that? Why origami should always be taught “free” as if we had to beg or as if origami shouldn’t deserve to be considered a serious, or as serious as, any other art, named, painting, sculpture, engraving, etc.? I do believe an origami teacher should be paid for his time and for his knowledge, which has nothing to do with the text book (e.g. a diagram book) he choose to use in class. Please. Consider this. All over the world. Many teachers don’t even imagine that we are still discussing this in our little endogamic origami bubble. They just grab an origami book from the shelf and use it in cass/workshop. No question asked because it would just seem so obvious. It doesn’t even come to their mind that they have to start collecting emails from an author they only know by the name on the book who lives perhaps in the antipodes of the world. Thanks Laura Rozenberg
