tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post4717014302986978520..comments2024-03-26T10:41:35.852+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: Digital re-seller loses round oneMarie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-12008903613553456882013-04-18T08:54:50.325+01:002013-04-18T08:54:50.325+01:00I just spotted another new business model - 1Dolla...I just spotted another new business model - 1DollarScan is an unusual business venture that allows anyone to send the company a physical book and they will scan it and send the customer a high resolution PDF for $1— but the physical book will be destroyed and recycled in the process. The Authors guild takes a dim view referring t the service as infringing copyrights.<br /><br />http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/56766-despite-copyright-concerns-1dollarscan-grows-marks-second-year.html<br />Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01868498334405853494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-65433393418500862032013-04-02T22:56:05.796+01:002013-04-02T22:56:05.796+01:00andy this new scientist piece is relevant .
&quo...andy this new scientist piece is relevant .<br /><br />"What's more, if your file has already been uploaded by someone else – a digital copy of a Radiohead album, for instance – then Dropbox will just link you to the existing files rather than waste bandwidth and space by uploading a duplicate. Are those files uploaded by that other person now yours? Surely not. Untangling relationships with your possessions in the cloud quickly gets confusing. "It's a muddle of abstractions," says Richard Harper at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.<br /><br />This is causing tension between our intuitive beliefs about property and the reality that this technology has created. How can we resolve this? ..."<br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729101.900-lost-in-the-cloud-how-safe-are-your-online-possessions.html<br /><br />Something else that is often overlooked is that the process that in a computer turns very long strings of <i>code</i> into a picture or music intrinsically requires making 'new' copies.john walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09294818072841970915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-28979769685826967122013-04-02T18:26:58.811+01:002013-04-02T18:26:58.811+01:00Cases like this one, 'Meltwater III' and A...Cases like this one, '<a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/current-cases/CCCaseDetails/case_2011_0202.html" rel="nofollow">Meltwater III</a>' and <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/02/aereo_winds_tv_streaming_appeal/" rel="nofollow">Aereo's recent victory</a> (also within the |Second Circuit) are really stretching the current law's ability to accommodate digital technology within statutes which were fundamentally drafted before the internet was born. That means judges are making a lot of law on the hoof.<br />That is not to criticise Judge Sullivan in this case. It is hard to fault his analysis, even if the outcome appears perverse to many who think they own their digital downloads, when in fact they merely have licences to use them under strictly constrained conditions.Andy Jnoreply@blogger.com