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Good formatting is what would be a tip off regarding piracy. Bad formatting is a hallmark of the regular publishing houses. |
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08-18-2009, 04:28 PM | #78 |
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I guess it varies like all pirated material. Some people release high quality things, some don't care about quality because they just want it out there (and fast)
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08-18-2009, 05:13 PM | #79 |
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What a lot of pirated material have is a system for marking up what the quality is. Usually the information given is the revision number and the status of the file.
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08-18-2009, 05:30 PM | #80 |
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I'm really surprised that Amazon doesn't check the names of titles and authors before allowing someone to upload them -- at least for popular books. How do you get burned with pirated copies of Harry Potter? Twice? Especially after the Nineteen Eighty Four fiasco.
I'm not a big fan of lawsuits but Amazon is begging for one. |
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08-18-2009, 05:32 PM | #81 | |
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According to Larry Lessig, about 80% of works currently under copyright have no known rights owners. So about 80% of Google's database will have no known rights holders. Of they 20% that are known, they are probably rather well known, so Google's database doesn't help much. And to further complicate matters, there's no penalty for claiming to hold a copyright when you don't. |
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08-18-2009, 05:46 PM | #82 | |
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08-18-2009, 10:43 PM | #84 |
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Yah, the Harry Potter reference quality ebook collection that I've acquired have been the most beautifully formatted ebooks I've ever found. IMHO J.K.R. should pay those pirates for doign what her publishes can't! (or is it she herself who doesn't want ebooks, I forget)
I wonder if they'll delete these copies from kindles like the did with '1984' a few months ago. |
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I'm not sure it's even illegal to get permission to publish, and then put your own copyright notice on a work that someone else owns. It's a violation to do this with CC works, because "attribution" is the most basic form of them, but I'm not sure there'd be anything illegal about, for example, contracting with Salinger to print a new edition of Catcher in the Rye, and announce in the inside, "Copyright [elfwreck] 2009; all rights reserved." (Odds of me getting Salinger to agree to this: very very VERY low. However, I could very likely get permission to reprint my father's college papers, were I able to find them, under my own name... which would give the impression of ~40 years more copyright protection than they should have.) I'm not sure there's any law against putting a *false* copyright notice on a work, now that copyright notices aren't specifically required for the protection to apply. |
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I'm surprised more authors who want to convert their older works to ebooks don't just go download them through the torrent network (after all, it's not illegal for them to get copies of their own works), and proofread & edit those, instead of starting from scratch. (From what I hear, the new Tolkein ebooks were *not* made from the .txt versions that have been floating around since 2001. Those don't have typos in the titles.) |
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pwarren, it isn't that her publishers can't, but rather that she does not want to. She's been openly against ebooks.
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while on the subject, copyrights should be registered if you want to keep the copyright for more than 1 year, after 1 year if you havent registered it, it should be considered public domain.
second, copyrights shouldn't last longer than Life +21 years |
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