Re: Who Checks to See that the Publisher Has Rights (was Re: Amazon remotely deletes 1984)

> I am in broad agreement with most of your post. The only thing that  
> might be worth thinking about is the use of ISBN. In the 1984  
> situation I understand the work was public domain in Australia. It  
> is hardly rocket science to do a check on source with a totally  
> automatic hoovering process, such as the Kindle appears to use.
>
> A serious player in the field can hardly claim that they don't  
> understand copyright issues. An ISBN is, in itself, a check of  
> sorts. This identifies the publisher and validates their physical  
> reality in so far as the ISBN purchase process has a system to do so.

UM, wouldn't the ISBN be an Australian one issued by Australia? Not a  
US ISBN issues by a US publisher? How is Amazon supposed to  
automatically compare the books? By title? I mean, NO two books ever  
share the same title **snort.**

I have a funny feeling that this is a software problem. Their Kindle  
store doesn't have encoded country restrictions--because such a thing  
is MEANINGLESS for paper books. A paper book, once printed/published  
in a country, can be transported across national boundaries and sold  
in another country without there being any question of copyright  
infringement. But can software? A sticker situation!

> Amazon has no excuses except slop and greed. The apology half  
> recognised that and seemed whole-hearted. Perhaps they will start  
> looking at their moral approach generally and their failure to  
> consider that publishers (especially small publishers) they serve  
> are real people.
>

Hey, I think "stupidity" and "lack of foresight" or perhaps just  
"shitty software developed by retarded chimps" could all be plausible  
excuses!

dej
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