E-books: Copyright, DRM (Digital Rights Management), Piracy
copyright has been strengthened via lobbying to avoid disruption of current monopolies eBook publishers following in the footsteps of music and movie industries? "fair use" rights often reduced due to FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) -- and poor laws "ownership" of media? read the fine print DRM, arbitrary delays and use restrictions have unintended consequences such as piracy and denial of access to disabled readers may reward publishers who eliminate DRM and barriers So, What Didn't Enter The Public Domain This Week, That Should Have 1/2/2013 The music industry dropped DRM years ago. So why does it persist on e-books? Experts say it may have to do with the size of the two markets, for one thing; 12/24/2012 Google presses fair use case in book scanning appeal 11/12/2012 No, Copyright Is Not A Human Right 10/26/2012 Turns Out When Random House Said Libraries 'Own' Their Ebooks, It Meant, 'No, They Don't Own Them' 10/24/2012 A healthy reminder from Amazon: You don’t buy ebooks, you rent them 10/22/2012 Amazon Wipes Customer's Account, Locks All Ebooks, Says 'Find A New Retailer' When She Asks Why 10/22/2012 Remote Wipe of Customer’s Kindle Highlights Perils of DRM licensing, ToS; 10/22/2012 Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory Judge rules for Google's library partners in lawsuit brought by Authors Guild; another lawsuit pending; 10/10/2012 Google Deal Gives Publishers a Choice: Digitize or Not 10/4/2012 Google Gives Up Fair-Use Defense, Settles Book-Scanning Lawsuit With Publishers 10/4/2012 Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter The Public Domain? The Data Says... No 9/28/2012 Publishers Can't Seem To Celebrate The Ebook Boom Without Slipping In Odes To Copyright 9/24/2012 Book Publishers Latest War On Technology: How Dare You Share Your Kindle Highlights! Findings.com; 9/20/2012 Appeals court halts proceedings in Google Books case 9/17/2012 Authors Guild Continues To Battle The Present; Attacks Another Legal Service As 'Infringing' 1DollarScan; 8/27/2012 Hachette Tells Authors And Tor To Use DRM Because It Is Awesome Or Something 8/16/2012 Piracy witch hunt downs legit e-book lending Web site Several authors on Twitter mistook Lendink for a piracy hub, a mistake that eventually took the site offline. As the dust settles, a disturbing picture of file-sharing hysteria emerges; 8/9/2012 Court to Hear Google’s Challenge to Class-Action Lawsuit on Book Scanning 8/14/2012 Authors Guild Asks For $750 For Every Book Google Scans; While Google Points Out That There's No Evidence Of Any Harm 8/7/2012 Google urges end to authors' digital book lawsuit 7/27/2012 Author Strips Naked To Protest Book Piracy Probably Works As Well As Anything Else; 7/23/2012 Tor/Forge E-Books Are Now DRM-Free 7/20/2012 A Redshirt in the DRM Wars Tor and first DRM-free ebook: Redshirts; 6/5/2012 What To Do When Attacked by Pirates The music industry fought the future and created a black market; book publishers tried another tack; 6/1/2012 Book publisher's subpoena for user data refused by Verizon Dummies series; 5/13/2012 Tor to Drop DRM From E-Books one of the largest sci-fi and fantasy publishers; 4/25/2012 Another Reason Why DRM Is Bad -- For Publishers barrier to entry in the online bookstore market; lock readers into a platform, e.g., Amazon; 4/16/2012 Homemade Hardcovers: Yet Again, Anti-Circumvention Interferes With Fair Use (rearranging pages of legally purchased PDF e-books); 4/12/2012 Why Do Publishers Treat Customers As Crooks With Scolding Copyright Notices? 4/6/2012 The Biggest 'Pirates' And 'Freeloaders' Of Them All? College Professors And Librarians (1st copyright law: "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning"); 4/4/2012 Why The 'Missing 20th Century' Of Books Is Even Worse Than It Seems (longer, ambiguous copyright); 4/3/2012 Chinese Writers’ Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder 24 books published w/o permission; 3/19/2012 Book Publishers Force Down Piracy Sites 2/15/2012 How Publishers Repeated The Same Mistake As Record Labels: DRM Obsession Gave Amazon Dominant Position; 2/10/2012 Google tries to kick Authors Guild out of court in book case 12/2011 Stross: (Big6) publishers' insistence on DRM "hands Amazon a stick with which to beat them" 11/28/2011 Hollywood's latest effort to turn back time (SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act; E-PARASITE); 11/1/2011 The case for piracy 10/20/2011 E-books are "attacking our freedom" (DRM) ; The Dangers of E-books 6/8/2011 Publishers Realizing It's Silly To 'Fight Piracy' 6/7/2011 Steal This E-Book (O'Reilly) 4/11/2011 Will E-Book Prices & Restrictions Lead to E-Book Piracy? 3/7/2011 Zombie Authors Threaten Fiction Ebook Market, from the Grave! dead authors; copyright expiring; free e-books; 2/3/2010 Will E-Book Anti-Piracy Technology Hurt Readers? 3/25/2009
Appeals court halts proceedings in Google Books case 9/17/2012
Google urges end to authors' digital book lawsuit 7/27/2012
Book publisher's subpoena for user data refused by Verizon Dummies series; 5/13/2012
The Biggest 'Pirates' And 'Freeloaders' Of Them All? College Professors And Librarians (1st copyright law: "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning"); 4/4/2012
Publishers Realizing It's Silly To 'Fight Piracy' 6/7/2011