Publishing Newschildren's fiction / Dante / Disney / Hacking / infringement / internet security / IP rights / Legos / literary awards / V-Tech6 Comments
DISNEY SUED Man Says ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ STOLE HIS IDEAS – Disney, which is responsible for some of the most onerous copyright provisions — because we need to respect the rights holders, right?! — is being sued for — you guessed, it — INFRINGEMENT! The case has been filed in federal court in Texas ... more >
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Google’s victory in book-scanning case is a huge win for fair use – Huzzah! Google’s book scanning has been found to be both fair use and transformative in nature by the Second Circuit. The Author’s Guild’s protracted litigation against Google (nearly ten years now!) had numerous problems along the way, but ... more >
Publishing NewsComics / copyright / fandoms / Hacking / Hugos / infringement / intellectual property / Manga / privacy / SFF / social media / Sony / Tumblr1 Comments
Sony pirated ebooks on hacking – Several site, including Boing Boing, are reporting that copies of two O’Reilly books available in PDF form on Sony’s internal servers, and part of The Hack, are pirated (which is ironic, since they’re books on hacking). The books are availably via Wikileaks, and recently ... more >
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Harper Lee: ‘Trade frenzy’ and ‘concern’ over new book – In the wake of news that a new (old) Harper Lee novel is going to be published, there has been much anticipation and much concern regarding the circumstances under which this book is being released, especially since the announcement comes ... more >
Publishing NewsHacking / Science Fiction13 Comments
Argentina Offers Its Aging Writers a Little Security – All authors should move to Argentina and not just because this is the view. The literary tradition is rich and supported by the government. Writers are given governmental grants up to around $900 per month. 82 authors have received such grants ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Hacking / privacy / science19 Comments
I feel for you Hitler, I really do. That said, my little index finger will be hovering over the buy button on the 12th. Ebooks: is it a genre thing? Definitely… – “But I do suspect that ebooks and the nature of ereading are changing the nature of popular narrative. Anything ... more >