[bksvol-discuss] Re: email from an author of a book I scanned
- From: Larry Lumpkin <llumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:06:36 -0500
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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