Writing as Scarcity vs Abundance

The nervous sense of proprietary protection of poetry as something to be protected from theft is a cultural artifact. It reflects from corporation, the economic model for legalistic behavior to exact their owed fees from a passive consumer culture. The aim is exclusive market monopoly for large scale uniform product distributed as cheaply and widely as possible with profits going to as few as possible. Wiki, open source, participatory culture brings back a balance of being a model of active creator. The model is access and shared abundance.
“Some poets seem to operate from a position of scarcity when it comes to poetry, not one of abundance. They feel more gives you less in the end, as opposed to giving you more in the end. As if we only get so many poems in our lifetime and to play around with poems means we’re going to run out of poems faster. Like the outdated notion that men have a finite amount of sperm and masturbation will result in dried-out plumbing.
But isn’t art about process, after all? Visual artists seem to have a better handle on this concept. When did so many of us poets become product-oriented, product-driven? Poetry is not an assembly line.” – Dana Guthrie Martin on Collaboration