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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has personally apologized for their misguided deletion of two George Orwell novels from customers’ Kindles: An Apology from Amazon - kindle Discussion Forum. This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our “solution” ...
Amazon, Kindle, E-Reader, Books, George Orwell, Copyright, DRM
Glenn Fleishman has a good article at TidBITS on the controversy over Amazon’s apparently Orwellian deletion of two George Orwell books from customers’ Kindles: Double Plus Ungoods: Amazon Unpublishes Orwell. Note: it doesn’t seem to have been publicized much, but Amazon has admitted they made a mistake with this move, ...
Amazon, Kindle, E-Reader, Books, George Orwell, Copyright, DRM
You probably heard the reports that Amazon had unceremoniously deleted Kindle versions of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 from customers’ devices. But it turns out there’s a little more to the story: the company who sold the books through the Kindle store did not have the rights to publish ...
What’s this I hear about people ripping off Iowahawk’s goods? The Pelosi GTxi SS/RT, Take 2. Maybe they need to have a discussion with the business end of Stinky Beaumont’s wrench.
Dave at Israellycool has uncovered a case of lizard larceny, a sleazy marketing site (and referrer spammer) that’s using our copyrighted Lizard Lounge graphic as their logo. Here’s the spammer, and this is his first notice to remove our graphic.
Another move to shut down services used by bloggers, as the mainstream media tries to hang on to control of their content in the digital age: Redlasso halts blogger service amid lawsuit. NEW YORK (Reuters) - News video-sharing site Redlasso said on Friday it will suspend its video search ...
The Viacom entertainment conglomerate has won a ruling that will force YouTube (owned by Google) to disclose details about every person who has ever watched a video at the site: Google must divulge YouTube log. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of ...
Wow. The MPAA thinks that because modern technology makes it hard to legally prove the origins of copyrighted materials distributed via the net, they should be able to collect damages from people without proving anything. The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right ...
LGF, MPAA, Record industry, Movies, Hollywood, Law, Copyright
The Jawa Report: Rusty Gets a Cease and Desist Request from ... GEERT WILDERS? A little glimpse of how bad things really are in Europe.
LGF, Geert Wilders, Netherlands, fitna, Video, Islam, Militant Islam, Copyright
Bob Owens got an interesting statement from the Associated (with terrorists) Press on their view of what constitutes “fair use” of their photographs: Confederate Yankee: A View of ‘Fair Use’. I’ll reproduce it here so it gets wider distribution: AP licenses its works (photos, news stories, video and so ...
LGF, Associated Press, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Photographs, Snapped Shot
The Associated Press sent a scary lawyer letter to Brian of Snapped Shot because of his “frequent and systematic” use of their copyrighted photographs, and Brian has shut the site down... developing...
LGF, Associated Press, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Photographs, Snapped Shot
One of the moonbats who participated in the disgraceful demonstration at UC Santa Cruz (whose friends are now engaged in other lovely pursuits, such as publishing personal information about “right-wing” bloggers in an attempt to intimidate them) contacted me this morning, demanding that I remove one of his photos from ...