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Copyright

By jeremyblachman

This is a quite excellent piece by Cory Doctorow about copyright law and e-books and how preventing people from owning sharing their e-books is a stupid thing for publishers to be doing.  An excerpt:

Anyone who claims that readers can?t and won?t and shouldn?t own their books are bent on the destruction of the book, the destruction of publishing, and the destruction of authorship itself. We must stop them from being allowed to do it. The library of tomorrow should be better than the library of today. The ability to loan our books to more than one person at once is a feature, not a bug. We all know this. It?s time we stop pretending that the pirates of copyright are right. These people were readers before they were publishers before they were writers before they worked in the legal department before they were agents before they were salespeople and marketers. We are the people of the book, and we need to start acting like it.

Full post as published by Jeremy Blachman's Brand New Weblog on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).