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msspurlock about 1 year ago

Here's the bottom line:
Nobody stole a book here.
Nobody claimed a work as their own.
If I mention As*mov's Three Laws in passing and the SFWA comes after me, they should be sued out of existence.

xanadu about 1 year ago

a doc on scribd about DMCA censorship

Anonymous about 1 year ago

Anonymous = SFWA

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Anonymous

Anonymous about 1 year ago

Scribd is a site that makes advertising revenue out of thousands of people illegally posting copyrighted material and hides behind the few who post legally.

Doctorow gives his work away for free, and if you've ever read any of it it's fairly obvious why he wouldn't think anyone would actually pay money for it.

But the SFWA does represent hundreds of authors whose work was illegally posted on Scribd who refused to take it down for a considerable period.

Soon enough it will be impossible for the decent authors to make a living and all we'll have is free rubbish.

Of course Doctorow will be happy because his books will be just as good as everyone else's then. How marvelously egalitarian.

Doctorow is grossly misrepresenting what actually happened in this case. Talking about lawsuits, Burt has a very good case for suing Doctorow for slander.

msspurlock about 1 year ago

So why the hell isn't someone swearing out a warrant against this SFWA guy for perjury and abuse of the court system? It's our tax money they're wasting!

Builder about 1 year ago

One of my articles was removed by Scribd because it had an Asimov epigraph of two sentences at its beginning. The article was, I thought, quite complimentary of the thinking of Mr. Asimov.

Apparently SFWA considers "fair use" something they are prepared to fight about in court. Their first course of action is to play the role of the bully to see who caves.

Scribd honcho Jared Friedman encouraged me to submit a DCMA counter-notification which he would send to SFWA. That's the equivalent of asking the other side's team of lawyers for permission to defend yourself at your own trial. (No criticism intended of Jared because I think he's just getting his feet wet in the foul world of copyright issues, copyright law and copyright hyjinx.)

Pat Shepard about 1 year ago

Two points:

1) The SFWA handled this with quite a bit of incompetence. They need to be careful both that the targeted document is one they intend to target (presumably a copyrighted work by one of their members) and that the author of the work actually does want it removed from Scribd. They apparently did neither, making themselves look both like thug and *****. You'd think it would be hard to look like both of those at once.

2. Even though this was handled horribly, book piracy is a potential disaster looming on the horizon and an appropriate concern for the SFWA. Right now e-ink is rare and expensive and book piracy is a ways from critical mass. This will not always be so. Imagine an easy to use e-reader using e-ink and a client that can grab any book you can successfully search for. Movies have first-runs in theaters to preserve their revenue stream, television has first-run advertising revenue and musicians have concerts as a revenue option. Authors do not have comparable protections - nobody will pay $70 a ticket to hear Charlie Stross read Accelerando to them. I do not want a world where books are only written by the idle rich or over a period of years once the author (no matter how talented) gets home from their drudge job.