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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch
I wonder if Amazon will tighten up the upload process in the face of these issues. Then people won't be able to buy the books in the first place, which means they won't have to take them off anyone's readers. Everybody wins.  |
IMO, they better. When they let people upload books without checking them, and then turn around and sell them, Amazon is also responsible for any copyright infringement. There's a big difference between an ISP just hosting user's material versus a retailer actively selling uploaded content.
I think Amazon definitely has some responsibility here to make sure that content they are selling is authorized before they do so. Whether the content on their store comes from their internal business units, or from uploaders, doesn't matter. Since they are the ones selling/distributing it, they need to verify it.
Personally, I think the whole idea of "you upload it and we'll sell it" was poorly thought out.