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Trying to save orphan works from the Authors Guild monopoly control
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| The Author's Guild v Google suit recently produced a settlement agreement.
| The agreement has been lauded widely, but what hasn't gotten as much press is
| what the agreement says about orphan works -- copyrighted works whose author
| cannot be found, or where it is not clear if the copyright is valid.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/trying-to-save-orpha.html
[A2k] Re: [Upd-discuss] Free us from the Swindle
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| I sympathize with the feeling behind these protests, but they are directed at
| the wrong target.
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| The protestors rightly condemn the Authors Guild for demanding the removal of
| the screen reader feature, but the way they are doing it makes Amazon look
| like a victim. Actually it is the main perpetrator.
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http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/a2k/2009-April/004172.html
Recent:
Protesting the Authors Guild
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| On Tuesday, April 7, the National Federation of the Blind will protest in
| front of the Authors Guild headquarters, at 31 East 32nd Street, New York
| City. The protest criticizes the Authors Guild's bullying of Amazon to get
| them to shut of the Text-to-Speech functionality on the Kindle 2. The Authors
| Guild demands that blind people wanting this added and enabling technology
| must either submit to a burdensome special registration system and prove
| their disabilities or pay extra for the text-to-speech version.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/04/protesting_the_authors_guild.html
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