Marilynn Byerly in an audio chat on Tuesday
Marilynn is a frequent commenter on the site, so I thought you'd like to hear her in person on Crazy Tuesday, a live blog done by romance author Rowena Cherry. ...
The Erosion of National Autonomy in Copyright
The fantastic and informative Michael Geist has a great analysis in today's Morning Links about the latest gambit in the copyright wars: a term extension which will protect sound recordings for...
Supreme Court First Sale Doctrine case could give boost to resale-proof digital media sales
Ars Technica has a couple of great, in-depth pieces laying out in detail the facts of the matter surrounding the upcoming Supreme Court case concerning a Thai exchange student who imported and resold cheap foreign...
Giving it away, and the failure of copyright?
Here are two unrelated articles that make an interesting contrast, as both of them have to do with things being given away for free. Giving It Away First,...
New Attributor study on pirated ebooks – of dubious value
Publishers Weekly is reporting on this new study:
Digital content monitoring company Attributor is out with another survey gauging the amount of book piracy that lurks on the Internet. Unlike its earlier...
Teacher suspended for selling public domain book to students; should have used Project Gutenberg
I just ran across a story Nate Hoffelder posted on The Digital Reader, originally from the New York Post, about a Brooklyn English teacher, Todd Friedman, who’s been put on academic...
Publishing execs speak out on e-book piracy
The Bookseller reports on execs from Penguin and Random House speaking at a book award breakfast on the subject of e-book piracy. They warned that illegal copying has been “engrained...
No Starch Press offering 50% off today for Day Against DRM
Today is Day Against DRM. I received the following email from No Starch Press:
I’m writing to let you know that we’re super excited about Day Against DRM and we’re joining the effort...
Study shows 99% of BitTorrent content infringing; Ars Technica blames DRM
Though the size of the sample makes it a bit closer to anecdotal than scientific, a study has looked at a random sample of about 1,000 files shared via BitTorrent...
Chronicle: Academic publisher steps up efforts to stop piracy of its online products
The Chronicle of Higher Education article describes the efforts of the American Chemical Society to protect access to its SciFinder service, which had been discovered to have been accessed by Chinese...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
