Comments on: Tasini settlement: $18M for writers http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/tsini-settlement-18m-for-writers/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/tsini-settlement-18m-for-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-31 David Rothman Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:43:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2518#comment-31 What's really needed isn't Tasini but well-enforced anti-trust law--in every country. In the e-book area, of course, open standards and nonproprietary DRM would be useful. No panacea. But they'd help break down the barriers to entry in areas such as distribution. Thanks for the info, Branko! What’s really needed isn’t Tasini but well-enforced anti-trust law–in every country. In the e-book area, of course, open standards and nonproprietary DRM would be useful. No panacea. But they’d help break down the barriers to entry in areas such as distribution. Thanks for the info, Branko!

]]> By: Branko Collin http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/tsini-settlement-18m-for-writers/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Branko Collin Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:28:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=2518#comment-30 "<i>Of course, publishers are now forcing writers to sign contracts that make them give up syndication and database rights anyway.</i>" This is exactly what happened after a <a href="http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Lab/Auteursrecht/970925bin.html" rel="nofollow">similar case in the Netherlands</a> (Dutch) 8 years ago. “Of course, publishers are now forcing writers to sign contracts that make them give up syndication and database rights anyway.”

This is exactly what happened after a similar case in the Netherlands (Dutch) 8 years ago.

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