My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive

Re:My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Intern... by timeinput on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:57PM (#23935244)

I think the root issue is the creator didn't entirely understand what they were giving away. Harper Collins and all publishers don't create content. They are a delivery platform. Unfortunately to use their delivery platform I have to give them exclusive rights to the content (it's even worse than face book and reddit where they merely claim right to use the content).

In return they'll give you <10% of the profits of publishing the book. That seems like a terrible deal today.

On top of that we're also talking about books where the author is dead.

Why is anyone entitled to my creation isn't a valid question to ask of book publishers. They didn't create a thing.

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Re:My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Intern... by Mindwipe on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:31AM (#23937475)

If it were such a terrible deal authors wouldn't take it, especially successful authors. They overwhelmingly do because it's absolutely more successful the vast, vast majority of the time in getting paid than any of the alternatives are.

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