[bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:30:14 -0700
Jim Homme, what instrument or instruments do you play? I play trumpet
and sing tenor and play piano. I hate piracy as well.
On 8/26/08, Larry Lumpkin <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Someone needs to explain the Chafee Amendment to her.
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:01:41 -0500, solsticesinger wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi, all. I received this message from Katharine Webber, the author of
>>Triangle, which I recently submitted to the collection. She is apparently
>>displeased that her book is in the collection. I tried to explain that
>>bookshare is not illegal. Here is what she says: Scanning pages of a book
>> that
>>is copyright and therefore protected intellectual property, and then
>>ndistributing those pages to other people through a website, is a
>> violation of
>>the copyright law. Very specifically, you are stealing income from me,
>> the
>>author of TRIANGLE and other novels. What you are doing is theft. Do you
>> mind
>>that? Would you steal a meal in a restaurant, would you steal services
>> from
>>your plumber? If you had no idea it was illegal, now you know. Surely you
>> do
>>know this? BOOKSHARE IS ILLEGAL THEFT OF PROPERTY. Do you want to keep
>> doing
>>it and to wait to be prosecuted? Who can heal, but one who has healed
>> herself?
>> Who can know, but one who has asked and sought? Who can lead, but one
>> who
>>has traveled the way? --ancient French proverb
>
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