The idea that I’d get dyspeptic over people- readers-celebrating what I write is goddamned bizarre. It is a goddamned dream come true, like growing up to be a cowboy or an astronaut, except that you don’t get oppressed by ranchers or stuck on the launchpad in an adult diaper for 28 hours at a stretch. I have always dreamt of writing sf novels, since I was six years old. Because I can’t stop you from sharing it (zeroes and ones aren’t ever going to get harder to copy) and because readers have shared the books they loved forever so I might as well enlist you to the cause. Because I copied my ass off when I was 17 and grew up to spend practically every discretionary cent I have on books when I became an adult. Why am I doing this? Because my problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity (thanks, for this awesome aphorism). Also: if you like it, buy it or donate a copy to a worthy, cash-strapped institution. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.” “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern.
Assign it to your students (older students, please-that sex scene is a scorcher) ( now I’ve got your attention, don’t I?). Review it on Amazon or at your local bookseller. What do I want from you in return? Read the book. Every word of it is a gift, not a confiscation.
#GENITAL JOUSTING OH NO I HAD MY LAPTOP OPEN LICENSE#
The license agreement (see below), is from Creative Commons and it gives you even more rights than you get to a regular book. I believe in copyright law’s guarantee of ownership in your books. (Of course, the button on their website says, “Buy this book” and they talk about “Ebook sales” at conferences-no one says, “License this book for your Kindle” or “Total licenses of ebooks are up from 0.00001% of all publishing to 0.0001% of all publishing, a 100-fold increase!”) Instead, they say that when you “buy” an ebook, you’re really only licensing that book, and that copyright law is superseded by the thousands of farcical, abusive words in the license agreement you click through on the way to sealing the deal. When copyright laws are made-by elected officials, acting for the public good-they always safeguard this right.īut ebook publishers don’t respect copyright law, and they don’t believe in your right to own property. Copyright law has always recognized your right to own your books. Owning books has been around for longer than publishing books has. You can give it away, you can lend it, you can pass it on to your descendants or donate it to the local homeless shelter. Copyright law says that when you buy a book, you own it. These people don’t believe in copyright law. I’m speaking, of course, of the legal departments at ebook publishers. What’s more, they’re powerful and organized, and have the ears of lawmakers and the press. They have no respect for property or laws. There’s a dangerous group of anti-copyright activists out there who pose a clear and present danger to the future of authors and publishing. A word to professors, librarians, and people who want to donate money to me.
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