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This always seems to be the case with things like this. The person who owns the intellectual property rights for the book is publishing a modified version of t
by p1necone 4y ago
This always seems to be the case with things like this.
The person who owns the intellectual property rights for the book is publishing a modified version of the book. Absolutely be mad about your already purchased copy being changed under your nose - that probably should be illegal.
But it's not really clear whether there's anything sensible that can be done past that without ironically violating the freedom of speech of the person publishing the book. (I would definitely support much shorter copyright terms though. An author who died 30 years ago doesn't need encouragement to produce more works anymore, which is supposed to be what copyright is for)
- account42 4y ago> But it's not really clear whether there's anything sensible that can be done past that without ironically violating the freedom of speech of the person publishing the book. There is a simple solution. Require continued distribution for continued copyright protection - for every single version individually.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago> violating the freedom of speech of the person publishing the book Corporations are not human beings. I'm not even sure they should have any rights at all, to say nothing of free speech.
- FredPret 4y agoWell, corporations need separate financial and legal “lives” or else there’s no point to them. There’s also always a person behind it, no matter how many corporations deep you go into the ownership structure. But this Kindle censorship stuff is the fault of the woke scolds. Their spirit could be found in a society of superstitious cavemen, among the religious nuts of the 1600’s, and now this. In the forward march of humanism, this particular fight is a social and legal one.