“We are working on a platform that will let publishers give readers full access to a book online.” The man who said this is Jens Redmer, director of Google Book Search in Europe, and the source that first brought this story online it is The Times, here and here.
While the first article cites David Worlock […]

In 2001 I organised an alternative literary festival called “Surf Sample Manipulate” in Lucerne. I invited the American media artist Mark Amerika to make a public performance. He showed what this “new way of writing” means. He surfed the WWW, he copied interesting text samples, rewrote them and produced a new text. A text by […]

Texts Don’t Grow on Trees – the Authors’ Rights Awareness Campaign
The European Writers’ Congress has launched a campaign which over the next two years, aims to raise public awareness of Authors’ Rights. Texts don’t grow on trees; they are the works of authors.
At a time when new digital distribution models are being developed worldwide – […]

More than six million books, documents and other culturally significant works should become available online within the new European Digital Library over the coming five years. The IST project TEL-ME-MOR aimed to ensure that the national libraries of the newer EU member states are included in this ambitious objective.
With the project due to end […]

Which songs are allowed to be exchanged via the Internet? Does the exchange infringe any copyrights? Users are often at a loss, and copyright holders are annoyed. The exchange of songs, videos or podcasts usually takes place via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, where all computers have equal rights and each user can simultaneously offer and download […]