Category Archives: Rights
All Your Books Are Belong To Pirate Translators
How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web Bamarang is the creation of Oliver, Marc, and Alexander Samwer, a trio of German brothers who have a wildly successful business model: Find a promising Internet business, in the U.S., and clone it … Continue reading
Filed under eBooks: General, Rights
France’s Book Grab: Worse Than Google Books
France: All your books are belong to us Last week France passed a law that permits the state to seize authors’ rights on books published before 2001. France Guillotines Copyright No burden of proof is to be laid on the … Continue reading
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A Copyright War In 1917
Click = big There is missing material in the original. I did my best to at least align the two pieces.
Unglue.it Could Save Public Libraries
Unglue.it Crowdfunds Unlimited Licenses for Beloved E-books This, for example, is what he means by “unglue,” the concept that lies at the heart of Gluejar: “unglue (v.t.) For an author or publisher to accept a fixed amount of money from … Continue reading
Filed under Books: Internet, Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General, Public Libraries, Rights, Writers
George Lucas Loses UK Copyright Battle
Lucas loses Star Wars copyright case at Supreme Court A Lucasfilm spokeswoman said: “We believe the imaginative characters, props, costumes, and other visual assets that go into making a film deserve protection in Britain. The UK should not allow itself … Continue reading
Quote Of The Day: Anonymous/LulzSec
Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea.
Judge Chin Has Great Timing!
Frustrated judge pushes Google digital book deal A Manhattan federal judge set a September 15 deadline for Google Inc, authors and publishers to come up with a legal plan to create the world’s largest digital library, expressing frustration that the … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, Collapse, eBooks: General, Google, Pottersville, Rights, Writers
When Japan Whines About Copyright, Show Them This!
From time to time there are stories from Japanese companies whining about how their movies, TV shows, and manga are being “stolen” by Americans and fansubbed and Boo-hoo-hoo. Whenever they open their yap, shove this right down their throats! It’s … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow, Movie, Music, Reference, Rights
Countdown To Sony Being Stupid And Busting Me
Sony Removes its ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Trailer From the Web Before it was removed, though, that particular YouTube posting had been viewed more than 1.4 million times as of noon PDT on Tuesday. So, the video I … Continue reading
Filed under Friction, Marketing, Police Abuse, Rights, Stupid
Writer Christopher Fowler Gets A Sony Reader
Going Off-Page Transferring files is not instinctive, and requires that you create a library, register for Adobe and log onto your chosen store – three contradictory steps. The Derelict Library So I tried other ePub sites, and got as far … Continue reading
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