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Random House being sued for not paying royalties
Here's the full story from the bbc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32363846 |
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No shock.
Their AUTHOR SOLUTIONS scam empire has two class action suits ongoing. Their priorities have long been clear, especially on the Penguin Side. Of course this discussion is headed into Godwin territory real fast... Last edited by fjtorres; 04-18-2015 at 01:43 PM. |
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It boils down to the question of whether moral objections justify breaking copyright law. I'm pretty sure that the courts will decide that they don't.
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Quite. Clearly the publisher has no moral qualms about making money from the biography of Dr Goebbels.
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Give them *some* credit: most of the inhouse backstabbing is figurative, not literal. And when they conspire it is against suppliers or consumers, not their own employees. Which other companies have done. There actually are less scrupulous executives than BPH execs. Few, true, but they do exist. |
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I'm waiting for the PBHs to start having moral qualms about authors that exhibit any of the following opinions: sexism, homophobic, and/or racism.
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In the second case, diaries and memoirs are not documents but rather manuscripts and have long been published commercially. http://www.annefrank.ch/234/items/th...e-decades.html Last edited by fjtorres; 04-18-2015 at 07:36 PM. |
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I have to agree that they're weak on their morals objection. They made an agreement and that's that.
Not that I disagree with the moral objection. I think our Son of Sam law is a good thing and if that was the law there it should apply. But apparently it isn't and it doesn't apply and courts have to deal with laws and contracts as they are, not with how we feel about things. When that stops being true we're really in trouble. The biographer's objection that no private individual should be able to control important historical documents needs a closer look. It might be different if it was in the hands of Goebel's children but it isn't. They say the rights are owned by the Goebels estate. I wonder who they are and how they got control. There isn't really enough information in that article to know what to think about this. Barry |
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