"Who needs copyright, anyway?"

by Zohar Efroni, posted on May 17, 2008 - 4:57pm

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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Comment by david hodges (not verified), posted June 4, 2008 - 7:42pm

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.