When I was a kid my mother loved When it rained. Her 4 children, aged 9 and under would put on their swimsuits and run and slide on the lawn, giving her a well deserved breather.
Too often in sport or entertainment, a person of great talent and accomplishment will want to keep going as their abilities diminish, thus tarnishing how they are remembered by their fans. Well, at least people are still able to scroll back to earlier years to read a few much better strips and try to forget today’s atrocity. I leave you with that thought.
Abby needs a few refresher courses. Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.I admit that Len’s behavior has been aggravating, but right now Abby is simply looking for a fight, not for a resolution to a communication problem. When Len walked in and said he’d had a miserable day, it was a statement of fact, not an invitation to in depth analysis.
For those interested, there would have been no copyright in force for Claude Barlow’s works. According to Google the concept of copyright originated after the invention of the printing press. The ability to reproduce printed materials cheaply allowed anyone to hire a printing press to reproduce works or make pamphlets. Regulations were put in place around 1650 in which authorization was required from a designated bureau to prevent printing of "scandalous " materials. In effect, it was censorship rather than protecting proprietary rights. The first legislation in England was in 1710 and did not protect artists rights but regulated what could be printed. Copyright laws varied from country to country and an authors work could be reproduced and sold without compensation by simply going to a different country. The first international copyright agreement between US and European signatories was ratified in 1890’s.
Sorry Abby, but having Len assure you that your client was totally wrong is not going to make you a competent therapist