Putting Cash Before Copyright And Control [X-posted]

This reads like enthusiasm for a fading idea to me, and once again confuses the nature of book activity with the dynamics of the music business; and that by the way is actually about popular forms of music more that the whole field. As I read the article it essentially says you can't organise distribution. Well, maybe a lawyer can't...

Author Contracts 2.0: Putting Cash Before Copyright And Control
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/26479
http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=13474
[for example] '...“As lack of control seeps into digital distribution, so it will seep into author contracts. It’s understandable that authors may want approval on all the different channels, but it’s not realistic.”...'
[I think the opposite is now happening, and governments are strengthening the abiity to control use of material on the net. Nothing like as difficult as some declare.]


Joseph Harris - Debt Control Man
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