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Chris Johnson

A copyright black hole swallows our culture (Financial Times - Opinion) - 0 views

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shared by Chris Johnson on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Chris Johnson on 07 Sep 09
     
    This is a very salient issue in modern education and the results of the Google Books issue will have a great impact on academia.
  • Chris Johnson on 07 Sep 09
     
    This is an article by professor of Law at Duke. His argument focuses around Google's Book search service and the recent litigation surrounding it. He criticizes both sides and recommends that we collectively rethink the ideas behind copyright.
Devon Dickau

BBC News - The rights and wrongs of digital books - 2 views

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E-books copyright issues technology

shared by Devon Dickau on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as reference works
  • However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world
  • When you buy an digital copy to read on your e-book reader, phone or laptop all you get is the copyrighted bit, and what you pay for is a licence to have a copy or copies of the text.
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  • Amazon recently announced that it will let Kindle owners "lend" books, but only for two weeks and only once per title.
  • The idea of "intellectual property" deliberately conflates the two and allows politicians to pretend that laws about physical property should extend to digital downloads. We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics.
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