On 04/02/2010 09:27, paul sutton wrote:
tom
wrote:
I've been thinking about this Google Book
Agreement and am starting to get very scared about it.
Over the years I have 'published' things, with copyright at the bottom,
for a select few. I have not needed to, nor have I , registered these
in any way as I was covered by the Berne Convention and left it at
that.
The Google agreement, as far as I can tell, will give Google the right
to actually publish those on line - and pay me tuppence should I be
able to prove its mine after the fact. Now I've no problems with a
worldwide library but this action is retrospective. If they find a copy
of some of my works they seem to think they have the right to publish
it unless I go and tell them otherwise.
I can even remember some of the things I did and I'm fairly certain
that the only thing I'd loose if they did publish them was face.. but
that's just me. There will be many others out there, small publishers
who cant afford a legal team and a web search to find out if any one
else (MS as EEE?) is decided that this is a good game to play.
As a copyright holder I had a right to publish further or not. I wont
anymore.
I think this is horribly horribly wrong.
Tom te tom te tom oooh whats happening to this world.....
what happens if they find an oldefr version of a document and publish
that, even though it has been superceeded by a newer document, this
could be dangerous with books on say first aid, that give the 2005
convention for resusitation, that has since been updated.
who gets blamed, i suppose there is small print which blames the
original author
Paul
I would be inclined to consult a solicitor with
expertise in copyright.An injunction might be possible.
John W
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