Many of us take it for granted that we can download films or music without paying. Now, new projects such as Google Book Search will make millions of books available too. What will this mean for authors and the publishing industry? John Lanchester asks who owns what in the digital age. Read the article published in the Guardian, UK.
Who Owns What in the Digital Age?
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I’ve been reading this intro (probably by a Guardian sub-ed) and though: oh-no, not another “you-are-going-to-steal-my-digital-book”-rant. But no! Thankfully no!
John Lanchester delivers a thorough analysis of copyright and its history, very woth reading, a compelling example of its abuse by mainly US publishers (content distributors), an analysis of the effect of digitization of texts … and how the seeming problem of Google books could be solved by two simple regulations: to separate the period of copyright control from the period during which an artist can earn royalties, and to guarantee artists, by law, a percentage of the revenue from the sale of their work.
I might want to steal these thoughts.