Strict copyright laws do not always benefit authors
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And they could even increase risk, study says A stricter, more author-friendly copyright regime does not guarantee higher pay for authors, according to a new study which surveyed the earnings of 25,000 writers.â¦
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Why haggle over writer residuals when fresh content could make you unbelievably rich?
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ANKARA, Turkey  - His books have sold more copies  than almost any other author in Europe this year and are hotly  debated by housewives and intellectuals alike, but newspapers  are reluctant to publish his work.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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A cookbook author is angered that another writer is using his bookâs title, but learns thereâs not much he can do about it.
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Sometimes media metrics and audiences have very different views of what works.
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Customers might not like the idea of technology that allows some uses of music (like copying iTunes downloads to their iPods) but forbids others (like copying the same song to another kind of music player). But until recently, it didn't seem to bother the executives behind these anti-piracy systems.
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Can the act of file sharing take place "passively," without the users' direct involvement; and if so, can they no longer be held liable for copyright infringement? That's the question a US district court is preparing to consider.
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Google continues to fight its upcoming copyright infringement suit without support from others book-scanning sites. Reports say that Yahoo has rebuffed its rival's request for information on the smaller firm's efforts to create digital copies of books which may or my not still be in copyright.
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Should creators insist on copy protection and other technologies to block the unauthorized spread of their works?
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Newspaper is criticized for writing that recording industry wants to criminalize copying music to a computer. RIAA and even some of the group's biggest critics say Post got it wrong.
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A new study finds that artists and musicians love the internet, using it to promote themselves and their work. But they are divided on whether illegal file sharing helps or hurts them. By Katie Dean.
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Musicians believe the internet is an essential tool to help create and market their work, but at the same time more than half of artists say file sharing of unauthorized copies of music should be illegal, according to a new report.
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The price-to-book ratio is a useful metric for finding value -- but it's not without pitfalls.
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Although excerpts from high-profile books routinely appear in national magazines, some publishers have been having second thoughts about the strategy.
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Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that US law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions.
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Even bestsellers aren't much of a boon in the current bookstore climate.