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Author, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the new publishing models available to creators, the consolidation of the publishing and distribution markets, the emergence of Amazon as a frenemy to publishers and the misunderstandings that led to the Internet Archive court case. Highlights with timestamps: 1:26 Cory talks about the new publishing models for books, the Creative Commons license, and how other people can also make money even after putting their content online for free 15:20 Cory also explains the reasons why his publishers asked him to stop using the Creative Commons licenses 18:34 Cory talks about the Internet Archive, what it is, what it does, and why it was under attack by the publishers as an act of piracy claiming that they were acting as a library 22:50 Cory talks about the Horthy Trust, what it is and what it does 26:38 Cory talks about the particular moment when he hit the wall and now thought that there was something wrong there 31:26 Cory talks about the things that he would like to see happen in the next five to 10 years so as to break the walls and move forward Shows Mentioned: Open Rights Group: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ Craigslist: http://www.craigslist.org/ Google: http://www.google.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ Apple: https://www.apple.com/ Safari: http://www.apple.com/safari Nasdaq: https://www.nasdaq.com/ Google Book Search: https://books.google.com/books?uid=117522004192189783614 AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com/ Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/ Digital Millennium Copyright Act: https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/ Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ Macmillan: https://macmillanlibrary.com/ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ Quotes Mentioned: “We should acknowledge that the press is in trouble financially.” “If you don't know what's causing the problem, then simply doing something won't necessarily fix it.” “A tractor without its software is just an inanimate lump of metal.” “If you're not paying for the product, you're the product.” “Publishing is connecting an audience with a work.” “All the e-books are priced the same, thanks to various most favored nation deals between Amazon and the publishers and the other ebook stores.” “One of the reasons e-book sales went down would probably be because people got tired of reading off of screens.” Guests Social Media Links: Guests Social Media Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-doctorow-a96558195/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cory.doctorow.75 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cory_doctorow/ Website: https://www.eff.org/ Personal website: https://craphound.com/ Email: doctorow@craphound.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow Call to Action Links: website: www.walledculture.org podcast: tbd
Author, journalist, and activist Cory Doctorow talks about the evolution of newspapers, the role and threats posed by big tech, the collateral damage created by link taxes and the impact of digital rights management systems (DRM) on our daily lives, including on our right to repair Highlights with timestamps: 0:00 Intro 4:05 Cory talks about the link tax, Craigslist, monopolies and how this is impacting the press especially newspapers and also how the internet impacted the press and what needs to be done 17:22 Cory explains why he feels that link taxes affect the smaller startups platforms more as compared to the big tech monopolies and why it's a recurring motif in copyright fights involving monopolists 20:30 Cory talks about digital rights management or DRM, what it means generally and in specifics and what it is all about 23:17 Cory talks about how the digital rights management don't serve the user rights and how it also hurts the publishers 28:06 Cory talks about the John Deere case that he wrote about recently and how it became the best sellers of tractors by using DRM 33:58 Cory shares his thoughts on the John Deere case in terms of security and also talks about what could be done Shows Mentioned: Open Rights Group: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/ Craigslist: http://www.craigslist.org/ Google: http://www.google.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ Apple: https://www.apple.com/ Safari: http://www.apple.com/safari Nasdaq: https://www.nasdaq.com/ Google Book Search: https://books.google.com/books?uid=117522004192189783614 AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com/ Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/ Digital Millennium Copyright Act: https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/ Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ Macmillan: https://macmillanlibrary.com/ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ Quotes Mentioned: “We should acknowledge that the press is in trouble financially.” “If you don't know what's causing the problem, then simply doing something won't necessarily fix it.” “A tractor without its software is just an inanimate lump of metal.” “If you're not paying for the product, you're the product.” “Publishing is connecting an audience with a work.” “All the e-books are priced the same, thanks to various most favored nation deals between Amazon and the publishers and the other ebook stores.” “One of the reasons e-book sales went down would probably be because people got tired of reading off of screens.” Guests Social Media Links: Guests Social Media Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-doctorow-a96558195/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cory.doctorow.75 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cory_doctorow/ Website: https://www.eff.org/ Personal website: https://craphound.com/ Email: doctorow@craphound.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow Call to Action Links: website: www.walledculture.org podcast: tbd
I'm pleased to post Show # 253, April 29, my interview with Prof. Pam Samuelson of UC Berkeley School of Law and School of Information, on the Authors Alliance. Pam needs little introduction to Hearsay Culture listeners given her position as one of the leading intellectual property law scholars of the last 30 years. In this interview, we focused on Pam's work for the Authors Alliance, founded by Pam in 2014 to promote "authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read." Given the continued pitched battles around the contours of United States copyright law, the timing of our discussion could not have been better. In a candid and broad interview, we discussed the recent Google Book Search fair use decision, the Authors Alliance's relationship with the Authors Guild, and the role for academics in policy debate, among other topics. I was thrilled to have Pam on the show, and look forward to her future return! {Hearsay Culture is a talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.}
The legal battles surrounding Google Book Search raise basic questions about the digital future facing all of us — not just authors and publishers but ordinary readers and everyone concerned with access to information. Research libraries should have a say in shaping that future. Digitization gives them an opportunity to democratize knowledge by opening their collections to the outside world. But how can they share their intellectual wealth when commercial firms want to market it? What will be the place of printed books in a world where most works will be “born digital” and read in new ways by “digital natives”? Libraries are developing strategies to cope with these issues, which are vital to our country’s future and deserve widespread discussion before the general public. Event: 2009-2010 Kritikos Lecture Speaker: Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library Title: Digitize, Democratize: Google, Libraries, and the Future of Books Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Join Graduate Library School alumni for brunch and an engaging talk about Google Book Search presented by Law Professor Randal Picker, Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law and Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. An expert on digital rights management, Professor Picker will explore issues of intellectual property and copyright law within Google's effort to provide accessibility and discoverability to the world's great print collections.
Bas and Roy plead with Microsoft to bring Bing to Holland, plus French national library gives in to Google Book Search, plus UK SERPs are going crazy.
Book World News with guest Chris Palma from Google Book Search