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Home :: Copyright Law 27 Jul 2010 It's legal to jailbreak your iPhone, sort of Copyright Law Recent fairly breathless news coverage has said that the US government has said it's legal to jailbreak your iPhone. That's somewhat correct but the reality is, as usual, somewhat more complex. See more ... posted at: 22:58 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Copyright_Law/jailbreak.trackback 16 May 2010 Photographers pile on to the Google settlement bandwagon Copyright Law Last month the American Society of Media Photographers and other professional photographers filed a class action suit against Google that bears a startling, dare I say, near photographic resemblance to the Authors Guild vs. Google class action. The latter case came to a proposed settlement that, in the opinion of many people including me, would be a breathtakingly aggressive rewrite of global copyright law in favor of Google and the members of the Authors Guild. (I'm a member, but they've never asked me or any other member whether we want them to do so.) The settlement has been in and out of court for the past couple of years, having provoked objections from parties ranging from the US Department of Justice to the State of Connecticut to the Federal Republic of Germany to the Open Book Alliance. See more ... posted at: 01:29 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Copyright_Law/pileon.trackback 14 May 2010 What are e-books worth? (Part II) Copyright Law In our last installment we learned that most of the cost of a paper book is in spent the editorial process, not the physical printing and binding, so even though e-books cost nothing to produce physically, the cost to the publisher is nearly the same, so they can't afford to sell them for much less than paper books. Today we'll look at the reasons that, even though they have some undeniable advantages, e-books are worth a lot less to book buyers than paper books. Assuming you already have a reading device like a Kindle, an iPad, or a Sony reader, you can store hundreds of e-books in it. In some cases you can share the books, along with your bookmarks and notes between devices, e.g., a Kindle and an iTouch or Blackberry running the Kindle app. The problem is that the "book" you buy to read on your device is not really a book, it's what publishers wish books were. See more ... posted at: 01:19 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Copyright_Law/ebook2.trackback 11 May 2010 What are e-books worth? (Part I) Copyright Law For us authors who have been writing paper books, e-books are the savior of the industry, or a a disastrous pact with the devil, or maybe both at the same time. The splashy launch of the Apple iPad, of which there are now over a million in users' hands, has coincided with a power struggle among Amazon, whose Kindle makes them the dominant retailer of e-books, Apple, who wants to muscle in using the iPad, and the major book publishers. Google also plans to enter the market this summer through their Google Editions store, selling copies of many of the books they've scanned in Google Books. There are two main problems with the e-book market--e-books are not much cheaper for a publisher to produce than paper books, but they are for the buyer a far inferior product. See more ... posted at: 00:15 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Copyright_Law/ebook.trackback 22 Feb 2009 Does reading software turn a book into an audiobook? Copyright Law Amazon recently released a new version of their popular Kindle e-book device. One of the improvements is that it includes text-to-speech software that can read an e-book aloud in a robotic voice. The Authors Guild, the main trade association of book authors, immediately claimed infringes the author's copyright, by making an audiobook version of the book it's reading aloud. That's ridiculous. See more ... posted at: 12:32 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Copyright_Law/kindle2.trackback

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