copyright – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:47:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg copyright – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Libraries in the digital world https://shepline.com/2011/03/13/libraries-in-the-digital-world/ https://shepline.com/2011/03/13/libraries-in-the-digital-world/#respond Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:47:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1675 Interestingly coincidental that it should be on the same that I create an eBook out of my own novel, The End Of All Worlds, that janejosiane points me in the direction of this interesting article on eBooks, eLending, and the future of libraries.

Once again, I found myself caught in a position somewhere between the author/publisher and the reader; between copyright protection and open access. Whilst I can see why publishers are suggesting imposing lending limits on eBooks to mimic the shelf-life of the physical edition, only 24 loans seems a bit extreme, and you have to question where you place that limit. A large factor when it comes to the shelf-life of a physical book before it falls apart is down, not to the number of loans, but the quality of the printing and binding, and if you were to say that eBook had the highest quality to its binding then it would be reasonable to say that it could be lent out an infinite number of times.

What I think would be more reasonable is the suggestion that if you buy 1 copy of an eBook then it can be read by just one person, or at least on one device (no reason to suggest that a device can’t have multiple readers), at a time. So libraries would still have to purchase multiple copies of an eBook just as they copy multiple copies of the latest bestsellers now, but they can continue to loan them out for years to come without fear of expiration.

]]> https://shepline.com/2011/03/13/libraries-in-the-digital-world/feed/ 0 Shameless spinoff or loving homage? https://shepline.com/2009/10/01/shameless-spinoff-or-loving-homage/ https://shepline.com/2009/10/01/shameless-spinoff-or-loving-homage/#respond Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:25:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/shameless-spinoff-or-loving-homage/ Not entirely sure how I feel about *new* Winnie-the-Pooh books, but at least they seem to have found an illustrator in Mark Burgess who can capture E.H.Shepherd’s style so marvellously…

New friend joins Winnie-the-PoohBBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts & Culture | New friend joins Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The much-loved bear’s new friend, who appears in Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, is said to be a “feisty” character who will cause a stir.

Then again, as Jane pointed out over a nice pizza-bagel lunch at G&D’s, with all these things, if you don’t like what they’ve done; if you don’t agree with it; then just ignore it. Pretend like it doesn’t exist. She has a good point. Still not sure about it though…

We also had a wide-ranging chat, which ended on the subject of copyright, spurred on in part by the above and in part by the BBC’s latest attempt to encrypt it’s free-to-air broadcasts. I can’t see that there’s anything wrong with the rules as it is:

The terms and conditions for free-to-air telly are “Do anything you want with this, provided it doesn’t violate copyright law.”

…this disscussion led in a funny sort of way into other sorts of copyright/fair-use/infringement issues. Apparently parody is okay. I wonder where fan-fiction stands?

Must have a read of Cory Doctorow’s thinking sometime soon.

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