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Read-Aloud (Now with bad pictures!)
So far, the main argument I’ve heard in favor of the position that text-to-speech rights infringes on audio recordings and performances is that if you had a really good text-to-speech engine, people...
View ArticleGoogle Books Notification
Last week, Scott Gant, an author (also a lawyer), filed an objection to the Google Books Settlement. His objection is very interesting; you should read it yourself if you are into this kind of...
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Article 7
The FTC released guidelines today governing blogging about books. In those guidelines, it makes it clear that it wants bloggers to disclose to consumers their relationships with the horrible...
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Readers have rights, too
The first thing I saw this morning on Twitter was a link to an article about e-book sales in the New York Times. This link, oft-retweeted, was usually mentioned alongside an admonishment to a Kindle...
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Stop! Using! Bad! Numbers!
(exclamation points, on the other hand…) There’s a conversation I’ve had before. In terms of authors I fall on the weak end of the “Boo, Piracy!” side, and I especially fall on the extremely strong end...
View ArticleNot in my name
Someone sent me a link to a site that uncovers pirates by identifying information about pirates that they have posted on forums: IP addresses, home addresses, what they do for a living, and so forth. I...
View ArticleGeneral noises of denouncement
You may have heard that ICE (that’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has seized several domains that it believes are related to piracy. I’m not sure why ICE is doing the seizure, as compared to,...
View ArticleDo you own your ebooks?
Mike Shatzkin has an interesting post in which he makes the claim that (1) readers never own an e-book; they just own a license, and therefore (2) readers should stop complaining about DRM and the lack...
View ArticleOn eating your seed corn
Today, the disturbing news that is going around is that some publishers have asked Overdrive (the library lending program) to limit the number of checkouts for a digital lending license. Look, I get...
View ArticleAnticircumvention
The copyright page in Unraveled contains this statement: Where such permission is sufficient, the author grants the end user the right to strip any DRM which may be applied to this work. I added this...
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