On 02/12/2010 10:13, kaostar wrote:
In USA you can register your title with Library of Congress and they
are supposed to "police" it -
hence works of dadaji are registered (which are in this collection)
- but mainly as a way of preventing publication ie AMOOKOS from
reprinting them : ) such as they are.
But there again the LOC notice stipulates that they are royalty free
- hence no fee is due - so not sure of the point?
Many of the works listed are public domain, out of print or only
available in expensive reprints. I'm not justifying any of this but
the received
wisdom in the trade re Digital Rights Management is to make sure
you have a standard edition in print, or an ebook edition at a
reasonable price -
with this in place then these collections make very little
difference to paper book sales and may even increase them.
Mogg
PS: several of our own books have been pirated this way over the
years, often with malicious intent, but it takes more time
and energy than anyone has available to make any impact on their
circulation . . .
indeed, the seller is located in Lancashire, UK apparently, so
come under UK copyright law- that they mention 'federal law'
indicates they are reselling somethign they have bought from the
US
b*stard
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From: Alan Pritchard <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:08:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] massive copyright theft
> Total smokescreen - not worth the electrons it is written
in!
>
Best wishes
> Alan Pritchard MPhil FCLIP
> Tel: +44 (0)1202 417477
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Spiro <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> Hi Dave,
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> Strange world it is. I suppose you didn't read to the end
where this disclosure is included which may have some bearing
on it.
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> COPYRIGHT
CERTIFICATION
> I
am not breeching or
infringing on any
copyrights, either I
have produced the
material and own the
copyright, or I have
full resell rights,
or the material is
in the public domain
with no copyright
because it was not
registered or
renewed...and as
such I am in full
accordance with
Ebays policy. If you
faithfully believe
you are the rights
holder of any of my
Occult programmes,
please provide
extensive legal
documentation
showing your
ownership. Any
lawsuit for
copyright
infringement needs
to be brought about
by the real parties
in interest (the
actual copyright
holder or assignee),
not somebody else on
their behalf.
Without a federally
registered copyright
(which automatically
would carry a
presumption of
validity), the
burden of proof is
on the person
bringing the lawsuit
to prove that they
own a valid
copyright for the
work....And then
with discussion with
Ebay I will withdraw
any item in
question. The
contents of these
DVD's are offered
for informative and
educational use. |
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From: kaostar
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> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent:
Thu, 2 December, 2010 8:41:21 PM
> Subject:
[ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] massive copyright theft
>
>
> Hi All, this has
been drawn to my attention, an ebay sale of pdfs etc of books,
many of them by
yourselves, or people you publish, or by people you know-
please complain to
ebay and we can hopefully get this taken down- and please
forward to others,
thanks
> Dave
> The ebay item is here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370462019062&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
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