Single-mother digital pirate Jammie Thomas-Rasset must pay $80,000 per song - Times Online - 0 views
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courtney reyers on 23 Jun 09ouch
ast week Henry Holt & Company stopped printing and selling “The Last Train From Hiroshima,”
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Kids in Ghana get gifts of computers - CNN.com - 0 views
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One little step towards overcoming the digital divide
Publisher Threatens Librarian With $1 Billion Lawsuit | Vermont Public Radio - 0 views
Why One Author Abandoned the Traditional Publishing Industry | Digital Book World - 1 views
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Okay, sure, I understand feeling the need to self-publish, and yeah, I can see how even big publishers could have bad marketing, but to take the advance and run? That just seems wrong wrong wrong to me on all levels.
A New Form of DRM: A Legal and Pragmatic Solution for Protection of E-Books | Digital B... - 1 views
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An interesting solution for dealing with DRM issues.
The Future of Print - 0 views
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Interesting post on digital vs. print publications.
Supreme Court told P2P users can be "innocent infringers" - 0 views
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The law was written in an analog era, and it targeted those who copied tapes or CDs. Such people couldn't claim not to know about the copyrighted nature of the works they were copying-it was written right there on the cassette or CD! But in the digital world, this makes no sense. How could slapping a copyright notice on a CD alert anyone using a P2P network about anything?
Pellegrino Book Is Pulled and Publishers Ponder Procedures - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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because its author had relied on a fraudulent source for a portion of the book and possibly fabricated others.
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digital media raises the question of what part the traditional book publisher will play in the future
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Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending Freedom in the Digital World - 0 views
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Everyone following this feed should be familiar with the EFF and its projects.
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views
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In the short run, the Google Book Search settlement will unquestionably bring about greater access to books collected by major research libraries over the years. But it is very worrisome that this agreement, which was negotiated in secret by Google and a few lawyers working for the Authors Guild and AAP (who will, by the way, get up to $45.5 million in fees for their work on the settlement—more than all of the authors combined!), will create two complementary monopolies with exclusive rights over a research corpus of this magnitude. Monopolies are prone to engage in many abuses. The Book Search agreement is not really a settlement of a dispute over whether scanning books to index them is fair use. It is a major restructuring of the book industry’s future without meaningful government oversight. The market for digitized orphan books could be competitive, but will not be if this settlement is approved as is.
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Nice short piece on some of the downside of the Google Books settlement.
GPO Expands Collection of eBooks - 1 views
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The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has expanded its collection of eBooks to more than 200 titles. GPO and Google formed a partnership in 2010 to convert Government publications into eBook format and make the eBooks available through Google's eBookstore. GPO and Google's endeavor has increased Government transparency by making Government publications accessible to the public in a digital format.
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Am I wrong to think that these ebooks should be free if the goal is government transparency?
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