End of Hachette v. Internet Archive

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I hope things change.

• Cheap POD means no excuse for "Out of Print".
• No excuse to not have ebooks. Even once off cost of OCR and human proof if no electronic format is peanuts compared to waste by Publishers.
• End Geographic limited sales.
• Stop making copyright longer. It should be shortened, but pigs would sooner be flying over a frozen hell and World Peace, no homelessness or hunger. War, homelessness and hunger are caused by greed and egotism.

Amen.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Stop making copyright longer. It should be shortened, but pigs would sooner be flying over a frozen hell and World Peace, no homelessness or hunger. War, homelessness and hunger are caused by greed and egotism.

There's a joke about the copyright terms being life + the number of years since Walt Disney's death. It works a bit less now that Steamboat Willie finally got into the public domain, but still.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

There's a joke about the copyright terms being life + the number of years since Walt Disney's death. It works a bit less now that Steamboat Willie finally got into the public domain, but still.

Along with the joke about Sonny Bono, the Senator from Disney, who sponsored the bill which is the butt of the above joke.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Maybe, but it seems more a matter of Matt Oppenheim being Matt Oppenheim. If you don't recognize the name, he's the... RIAA attorney who convinced Metallica to say "Napster bad".

Aside: Lars Ulrich is on record, some years later and somewhat sheepishly, acknowledging that anything which helps get his music to fans living under repressive regimes is a good thing.

That lawyer is an ass. He screwed the RIAA big time. When Napster first came out, sales of music went up. He manged to get that stopped.