John Degen, a Canadian novelist, has a thoughtful post on how he has resolved to make his latest novel, The Uninvited Guest, freely available for download online. It his a short yet touching divulgation of a writer’s musing about copyright protection in the digital age, and about thinking out of the box. He says that the war is over. I’m not sure, but I liked the frankness of an author who writes books with his heart’s blood and his dilemma about coming to terms with the wired reality.
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"Who needs copyright, anyway?"
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Non-Resident Fellow at Stanford's CIS, formerly at Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich
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that thoughtful post about making his novel free online? you now have to pay $4.99 to download a copy of it.
neither side may have a map, but copyright is power in modern times the constitution writers never could have predicted.