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If done commercially this could amount to "unfair business practices", of course, but seeing as how you don't seem to have commercial motives yourself, this is probably not an option. Is it tacky? Obviously. Forbidden? Not so easy to answer. Quote:
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Karen [koland] from the deals section says they use fake names and publishers to hide their activity. |
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I wonder when Amazon will be hit by the first lawsuit for copyright infringement. If they don't take any steps whatever to ensure that they do not publish books that violate someone else's copyright then Amazon starts to look remarkably similar to a pirate site.
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Subscribers of pirate sites are also being asked to sign the terms of usage that prohibit the publication of any material that violates the copyright of third parties.
That defense may work as long as copyright violations are a rare occurrence. As soon as they are starting to be a mass phenomenon the defense may quickly wear thin. Last edited by CommonReader; 06-19-2011 at 05:34 PM. |
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Remember when "J.K.R." (or whatever the name was) posted the Harry Potter books for sale on Amazon? Amazon yanked the content pretty quickly, but I'm sure that some people purchased the books. Were they supposed to write jkrowling@yahoo.com or whatever for independent confirmation that SHE posted the books, and not someone else? There's currently no online database that I know of that is controlled by, say, the government, and says which books have been published online and by whom and where and with valid links to each. It'd be nice to have, but until something like that exists, buying from Amazon (or wherever) is still a crapshoot to a certain (rather small) extent. |
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I've been in train stations where they keep repeating that you shouldn't leave your luggage unattended. Project Gutenberg tells people to check if the books are in public domain in their countries. Amazon could place a banner saying that people should check if the books are legit. |
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06-21-2011, 10:17 AM | #30 | |
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PD rules are INCREDIBLY convoluted and rarely make any kind of sense. There's not -- that I know of -- a big list that's easy to check. You have to track down publishing date, author death date, and then start digging through Mickey Mouse exceptions and start doing all kinds of math, and at the end of the day, it's still a crapshoot. And that's PD books. I'm also pointing out that you can't tell if the J.K.R. on Amazon that posted Harry Potter books is THE J.K.R. who finally changed her stance on the topic or some pirate playing a prank. I mean, obviously that's a pretty obvious case, but we just had this issue with a cheap copy of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley that went up on Amazon -- no one was really sure if it was a legit seller, and there wasn't a way to check. And believe me, I tried. In the piracy debate, there is WAY too much "people are lazy/greedy/stupid" moaning going on, and although I don't think that's what *you* meant, I do want to point out that saying "people won't check" isn't really looking at the big picture: Which is that when people DO check (as I do), they rarely find a solid open-and-shut answer. ALSO: Analogy Police time. You shouldn't leave your bags unattended because people could steal them or plant bombs in them. In the case of the former, it's pretty easy to tell if that's happened or not (the bag is gone); in the case of the latter, PEOPLE DIE. PD books? Are not the same thing. Yes, I'm a scold, but there are also too many silly analogies being tossed into the piracy debate, and only 0.01% are actually relevant. Last edited by anamardoll; 06-21-2011 at 10:41 AM. |
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