The Guardian has an excellent post on the Amazon Kindle controversy. The Author’s Guild threatened legal action against Amazon because the Kindle’s read-aloud function “is not paying anyone for audio rights”. Neither does my sister when she reads books to my nephews, but I digress.
What a sad state of affairs, some authors seem intent on stifling a new technology simply because they are not squeezing out the last penny from users.
This is the third post in a series about the Copyright Wars (previous posts here and here), which I’ve written given the growing interest regarding copyright prompted by the rise of generative AI. This is Read more…
In a previous post we provided the background of what some call the Copyright Wars, delineating the sides and the parties. While legal conflicts about copyright have been raging since its inception, this post will Read more…
My social timeline has been abuzz with the latest copyright decision regarding the Internet Archive, which lost its appeal in the copyright lawsuit from Hachette. In the words of a colleague, this is a “disappointing Read more…
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Anonymous · March 2, 2009 at 6:09 am
Andres, Thank god for geeky, high-profile writers weighing in on the side of common sense. Neil Gaiman. Can we clone him yet?Anna
Anonymous · March 2, 2009 at 6:09 am
Andres, Thank god for geeky, high-profile writers weighing in on the side of common sense. Neil Gaiman. Can we clone him yet?Anna