TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Marilynn Byerly http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The Digital Reselling Issue: What about the customer’s rights? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-digital-reselling-issue-what-about-the-customers-rights/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-digital-reselling-issue-what-about-the-customers-rights/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:00:23 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=79374 Yesterday, TeleRead published two thoughtful essays on the digital reselling issue (here, and here) from author Marilynn Byerly. I appreciate her desire to ensure that any used digital market is fair to authors. I don’t, however, think Amazon is—as she asserts—about to ‘break the law.’ Why not? Because while many have tried to interpret the [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-digital-reselling-issue-what-about-the-customers-rights/feed/ 13 More on Amazon’s used e-books controversy http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-used-e-books-controversy/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-used-e-books-controversy/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:00:35 +0000 Marilynn Byerly http://www.teleread.com/?p=79275 Digital products like e-books are licensed—not sold—to a buyer, so they can’t be legally resold, shared, or loaned. (See my article on e-books and the first sale doctrine for more information.) A group called the Owners’ Rights Initiative wants to change that. The ORI believes that the owner of a digital book should be allowed to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-used-e-books-controversy/feed/ 12 Is Amazon About to Break the Law? http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-amazon-about-to-break-the-law/ http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-amazon-about-to-break-the-law/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:04:07 +0000 Marilynn Byerly http://www.teleread.com/?p=79209 Amazon has patented a means to sell used e-books within the Kindle system. A book will be branded within the system when it is bought, and when the buyer puts it up for resale at the Kindle store, it will be removed from his account and transferred to the buyer’s account. Amazon will receive a [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-amazon-about-to-break-the-law/feed/ 7 Creativity and Copyright, by Marilynn Byerly http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/creativity-and-copyright-by-marilynn-byerly/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/creativity-and-copyright-by-marilynn-byerly/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 12:05:30 +0000 a TeleRead Contributor http://www.teleread.com/?p=65453 One of the common reasons copyright foes give for the evils of long copyright or any form of copyright is that it stifles creativity.   Is this true? My own feeling is that it doesn’t, particularly in fiction. WHAT COPYRIGHT DOES AND DOESN’T COVER Many don’t understand what copyright covers.  They think the ideas within [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/creativity-and-copyright-by-marilynn-byerly/feed/ 12 Marilynn Byerly in an audio chat on Tuesday http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/marilynn-byerly-in-an-audio-chat-on-tuesday/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/marilynn-byerly-in-an-audio-chat-on-tuesday/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:45:24 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.org/?p=39056 Marilynn is a frequent commenter on the site, so I thought you’d like to hear her in person on Crazy Tuesday, a live blog done by romance author Rowena Cherry. Here’s the blurb: Crazy Tuesday, March 2nd, 2pm Eastern : Launching “Authors Without A Yacht” When a proud ebook pirate stated that greedy authors don’t [...]

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