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I ran across this article, and laughed at its ludicrousness. It seems that a publishing company is sweating bullets and a bunch of science fiction writers around the world are hopping mad.
Galaktika was once a respected Hungarian language science fiction magazine, closed in 1995, and later reopened. Right now it's Hungary's only printed SF magazine. The only trouble is, its publisher, Metropolis Media, took copyrighted fiction from the internet and had it translated to Hungarian and republished it, saying it was in the public domain because it had been on the internet!
They're presently in some deep trouble with professional writers and their agents. Did they really believe that, I wonder? I'll bet if it was movies they'd REALLY be in trouble!
The article is worth a read. It was written by by Cat Rambo (honest, that's her real name), an old sciene fiction writer who has won Hugo and Nebula awards, and is president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America; the SFWA is a professional guild.
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(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Sunday October 02 2016, @04:14PM
Back in the early days of the Internet there were actually a lot of supposedly bright people who believed, and argued with great volume, that copyright and other laws didn't apply on the "net.
Forget the specific arguments, but it boiled down to " Because digital, not paper."
Of course the same people also believed that the Internet couldn't be taken over by commercial interests.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Type44Q on Sunday October 02 2016, @04:45PM
Of course the same people also believed that the Internet couldn't be taken over by commercial interests.
No one ever said that, idiot; they warned us that it could be.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mcgrew on Sunday October 02 2016, @07:30PM
Back in the early days of the Internet there were actually a lot of supposedly bright people who believed, and argued with great volume, that copyright and other laws didn't apply on the "net.
Forget the specific arguments, but it boiled down to " Because digital, not paper."
I was one of them, and still think it shouldn't which is why I give electronic versions of my stuff away. But that doesn't apply here; nobody I ever heard of thought it was okay to copy something from the internet and sell dead tree copies of it, and if you make money from my work, I want some of it.
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