Anticircumvention
The copyright page in Unraveled contains this statement:
Where such permission is sufficient, the author grants the end user the right…
copyright thoughts
On eating your seed corn
Today, the disturbing news that is going around is that some publishers have asked Overdrive (the library lending program) to limit…
Do you own your ebooks?
Mike Shatzkin has an interesting post in which he makes the claim that (1) readers never own an e-book; they just own a license, and therefore…
General noises of denouncement
You may have heard that ICE (that’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has seized several domains that it believes are related…
Not in my name
Someone sent me a link to a site that uncovers pirates by identifying information about pirates that they have posted on forums: IP addresses,…
Stop! Using! Bad! Numbers!
(exclamation points, on the other hand…)
There’s a conversation I’ve had before. In terms of authors I fall on…
Readers have rights, too
The first thing I saw this morning on Twitter was a link to an article about e-book sales in the New York Times.
This link, oft-retweeted,…
The FTC released guidelines today governing blogging about books. In those guidelines, it makes it clear that it wants bloggers…
Google Books Notification
Last week, Scott Gant, an author (also a lawyer), filed an objection to the Google Books Settlement. His objection is very interesting;…
Read-Aloud (Now with bad pictures!)
So far, the main argument I’ve heard in favor of the position that text-to-speech rights infringes on audio recordings and performances…