It’s wrong to steal, Part Whatever

[rolanni]

Very much worth a read: Juliet E. McKenna talks about copyright, piracy, and free speech.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Well, but...

Copyright law doesn't tell you that you can't lend books you've bought for your Kindle -- AMAZON tells you that. The vendor.

What I -- the copyright holder -- say is, "Buy my book." NOT, "Rip off my book and post it on the web for free because you have politics, or entitlement, or because you can."

Yep, I'm angry, too. And it's not my content, dammit -- it's my work, my stories, my characters, and my livelihood.

I agree that SOPA was...ill-advised, at the least. You may remember the very many posts I made about it in these pages. And I agree that there's too much greed on the sides of publishers and vendors.

On the other hand? Stealing remains wrong.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Amen, Sister Rolanni!

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

from my perspective as a consumer, the publisher, the artist, and the vendor blur into one entity. and well, duh, of course you shouldn't rip people's work off and post it for free. but the overall effect is that the effort to stop the real piracy has significantly infringed on the rights granted by the status quo in the pre-digital world.

re: content -- i didn't realize that such a neutral word as "content" would be taken as insulting. i meant it as a collective noun, not as a belittling descriptive. i apologize for causing offense. :\

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

re: content -- i didn't realize that such a neutral word as "content" would be taken as insulting. i meant it as a collective noun, not as a belittling descriptive.

But it's not a neutral word; and (in my experience) it's often used to devalue real and hard work. [fe]Anyone with access to a keyboard can produce "content." It's what the boss wants on the company website -- "An image, to show people Who We Are. . .and a little content, to fill it in."[fe]

A novel isn't "content," in exactly the same way a love letter isn't "content."

i apologize for causing offense. :\

Apology accepted; thank you.