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Jul. 15th, 2005 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bear's new iSpell icons Hee! Now, to convince her to put all of them into one icon together, whee.
It's only 10 am here - I have FOURTEEN HOURS before I could even comprehend getting the book legally, sigh. And I spent a little time this morning passing on info to The Powers That Be regarding an illegal radio contest in Tampa, Florida, which they managed to shut down with moments to go by threatening a suit against the station's parent corporation, Clear Channel, who are big enough to know better, but then again, I've found Clear Channel galactically stupid regarding the intellectual property rights of anyone but themselves.
Here's the thing - while I am not perfectly sure that the books can be considered unpublished anywhere in the world, these days, once they are officially on sale in the UK, I do think that until they are officially released there, they need to be considered under the copyright laws as they apply to unpublished works in the US, which means that infringement of them is addressed under a tighter and more protective standard than it is for works that are published. Once the books are published, the chapter titles merit no copyright protection, but until then, they do; once the books are published, fair use vests for purposes of parody, criticism and commentary, as well as educational purposes, but until then, they're in the same category as, say, JD Salinger's private letters. I know not all lawyers agree with that theory, but it's the only one that's viabe under current law, IMO. It's like the difference between your LJ posts which are set to private and the ones that, like this, are set to public.
But I am *so* sure that none of you are interested in law. I'm only babbling because some of you get the book in SIX HOURS and some of you in ELEVEN and I am still FOURTEEN hours away. WOE! WAH! WIBBLE!
I'll probably be spamming LJ out of boredom all day. Don't worry, no spoilers here, at least not for MORE THAN HALF A DAY MORE.
Silly left coast.zorb, I now know your pain.
bear's new iSpell icons Hee! Now, to convince her to put all of them into one icon together, whee. It's only 10 am here - I have FOURTEEN HOURS before I could even comprehend getting the book legally, sigh. And I spent a little time this morning passing on info to The Powers That Be regarding an illegal radio contest in Tampa, Florida, which they managed to shut down with moments to go by threatening a suit against the station's parent corporation, Clear Channel, who are big enough to know better, but then again, I've found Clear Channel galactically stupid regarding the intellectual property rights of anyone but themselves.
Here's the thing - while I am not perfectly sure that the books can be considered unpublished anywhere in the world, these days, once they are officially on sale in the UK, I do think that until they are officially released there, they need to be considered under the copyright laws as they apply to unpublished works in the US, which means that infringement of them is addressed under a tighter and more protective standard than it is for works that are published. Once the books are published, the chapter titles merit no copyright protection, but until then, they do; once the books are published, fair use vests for purposes of parody, criticism and commentary, as well as educational purposes, but until then, they're in the same category as, say, JD Salinger's private letters. I know not all lawyers agree with that theory, but it's the only one that's viabe under current law, IMO. It's like the difference between your LJ posts which are set to private and the ones that, like this, are set to public.
But I am *so* sure that none of you are interested in law. I'm only babbling because some of you get the book in SIX HOURS and some of you in ELEVEN and I am still FOURTEEN hours away. WOE! WAH! WIBBLE!
I'll probably be spamming LJ out of boredom all day. Don't worry, no spoilers here, at least not for MORE THAN HALF A DAY MORE.
Silly left coast.
zorb, I now know your pain.
