This is a call to arms, TUEBLovers! The next ten days are crucial in the battle for access to creative and cultural material. Today in Morocco, representatives from over a hundred countries are meeting to discuss a treaty to improve blind and visually impaired individuals’ access to books. Fantastic, right? Can you imagine, fellow bookworms, if your vast library… Read more »
Posts Tagged: copyright
TONIGHT: Librarian-In-Chief Travis McCrea on AnonPlus Radio
TONIGHT at 9PM EST: TUEBL’s very own librarian will be debating pro-copyright author Charles Sheehan Miles on AnonPlus Radio. For those who aren’t familiar with the rivalry, here’s the gist of it…………. Background Charles Sheehan Miles is the author of several novels and a handful of short stories. Earlier this year, on his blog Side Views,… Read more »
Copyright Trolls Going Too Far
Living in the (nominally, relatively) free world, I normally take for granted that my words alone won’t subject me to legal action. Yes, harassment, threats, or slander have consequences. But as an American, I sleep comfortably believing that I’m within my First Amendement rights to speak my mind. I can even stand in front of the White House or… Read more »
Dear Lady Justice: I Am Not A Xerox Machine (Full Version)
Yesterday, this article on Falkvinge.net reminded of a guest post I did on PirateWho about the value of creators – something the copyright debate tends to ignore. With PirateWho currently down, I’m republishing my guest post in full here: Dear Lady Justice, How are you? I ask because you seem a bit disoriented lately. I wouldn’t… Read more »
Bittersweet Facts
Let’s get one thing clear: the following should surprise absolutely no one. Over the weekend, news broke of yet another piracy-related study, this one having to do with the dearly departed Megaupload. In this paper, The Munich School of Management and Copenhagen Business School show that the shutdown of Megaupload negatively impacted the box office sales of many movies. Yeah,… Read more »
New Reference Page: Piracy/Copyright Links
I’m collecting all things Pirate and Copyright into a new reference page. This page will include research, court decisions, and anecdotes not only from the publishing industry, but from the film and music industries as well. We can always learn a thing or two from our predecessors. Why repeat their mistakes? I’m doing this for two… Read more »
Copyright Debate at Litopia Writers’ Colony
Update for anyone who wants to watch the fireworks over at Litopia. Update Update : Mike Masnick’s own account of the debate is up on Techdirt. LOZ: Let’s start by his attack on the British Library, which it was– RICHARD: –No it wasn’t, that is a complete and utter…that is… there you go again…… this is classic Pirate… Read more »
Free As In Freedom: Books are not Software (Part 2b)
This is a continuation of my musing on a free-software-type ideology for fiction. Read Part I Read Part 2a There are two approaches to the books aren’t software argument: 1) software gets special privileges (in this case: freedoms) because of it’s special position in society (read: indispensable,) and 2) fiction gets special privileges (in this case: controls)… Read more »
Free As in Freedom: Books Are Not Software (Part 2a)
This is a continuation of my musing on a free-software-type ideology for fiction. Read Part I The primary argument against the ideology of free software seeping into fiction may be that they too-different spheres whose ideas are simply non-transferrable. I disagree. Of course. But it’s a valid point. Fiction is not software. Books are not computers…. Read more »
What Monsters Convinced Artists To Destroy Their Art?
Still riding the high from SOPA blackout day–a great show of strength and unity from netizens around the world–I woke this morning to the crushing news that one of the giants of file-sharing, Megaupload, had been taken off line, its people, from one corner of the globe to another, arrested, and its users locked out of… Read more »
