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If Mary Oliver, one of our most well-known poets, can have her work used without the consent of her estate, what hope do younger, emerging, or marginalized poets have of retaining their rights to their work? If Netflix can act with impunity and brush off the pesky fact of intellectual property in this instance, where and how else can we expect their influence to show up in our culture moving forward?
We have to stand up for the rights of artists not because we all must make money and profit from our work (though we certainly ought to be able to) but because if we allow corporations to assert that the rights of individual artists are unimportant, we are willfully entering into a contract with the destruction of the human voice and the human experience.
If you watch the recent biopic of Diana Nyad starring Annette Benning, Jodie Foster, and Rhys Ifans, you might think poet Mary Oliver\u2019s work has been properly handled and credited in the film. But if you scrutinize the book cover for Oliver\u2019s House of Light and the recording of Oliver reading \u201CThe Summer Day,\u201D you\u2019ll find that each has been slightly fudged or excerpted or manicured in ways that are designed to give the impression of propriety. In fact, Netflix did not properly license Oliver\u2019s work at all.
After my original post ran, I was contacted by Mary Oliver\u2019s literary executor, who confirmed my suspicions that Netflix had not secured the rights to Mary\u2019s work. In an exclusive statement, Bill Reichblum confirms Netflix\u2019s overreach in Nyad:
\u201CThank you for bringing this to our attention. I, too, am troubled by the use of Mary Oliver\u2019s poetry in the movie. Neither Mary\u2019s literary estate nor the literary agency authorized or licensed the film\u2019s use of \u201CThe Summer Day\u201D or the use of Mary Oliver\u2019s voice reading this poem. Now that this has been brought to our attention, we are in the process of determining how to address this.\u201D
This is disappointing, to say the least, but not surprising. The media goliath failed to secure proper licensure for the use of Oliver\u2019s work in the film. Reichblum\u2019s comment points toward potential future action on behalf of Oliver\u2019s estate, which I would applaud.
This is not a student filmmaker forgetting to attribute Mary Oliver\u2014this is a $240 billion corporation steamrolling one of America\u2019s greatest recently departed artists. Netflix\u2019s theft of her work needs to be decried repeatedly and loudly. Poets in particular often joke that there is no money in poetry and that our readership is small. That might be the case, but at this moment we have a chance to assert its value and validity on behalf of all poets (and artists more broadly) by calling out Netflix\u2019s abuse of Mary Oliver\u2019s work.
In an age of burgeoning AI, artists and makers of all stripes will need to forcefully assert their humanity and the value of their human-created artistic output. Netflix\u2019s business model thrives on churning out content: they seem like a studio that\u2019s unconcerned with how the sausage gets made. One could easily envision Netflix at the forefront of the production and distribution of content that obviates the need for actual human actors when the technology exists and if protections for actors fail to materialize.
Just as Diana Nyad herself continues to use Oliver\u2019s work in ways that Oliver herself was not quite comfortable with, so too has Netflix felt justified in treating Oliver\u2019s poem as something they could just use to add to a shot, like a cheap lamp from a thrift store. They just took it. When politicians use songs without permission, all hell breaks loose. Headlines multiply. What about when the same thing happens with poems?
I join Reichblum in decrying Netflix\u2019s actions and encourage you to do the same. What can you do? For now, share this article, tell interested folks about this issue, or consider canceling your Netflix subscription in protest. I\u2019ve canceled mine. They\u2019ve even got a little box where you can explain why you\u2019re canceling.
Perhaps poetry won\u2019t always occupy the relatively small space in society that it does now. But if we would like to flirt with our annihilation as writers, all we need to do as a first step is look the other way as Netflix fails to license the work of the esteemed Mary Oliver.
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