[Web4lib] Amazon Deletes Orwell from Kindles

[Stevens, Julieanne H.]

Orwell/Blairs's works are a bad example to test the waters with all "this." He passed his copyright to a corporation while he was still alive and various persons manipulated the rights and ownership interest in the company over the ensuing years. I believe that his estate is the majority shareholder in the company now.  It is, and has been, a large legal mess to  deal with the rights to any of his works. For example, 1984 is in the public domain in some countries, but not in the U.S.

Juju Stevens

Julieanne Hartman Stevens
Electronic Services and Reference Librarian
Stetson University College of Law
Law Library
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Gulfport, Florida 33707
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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Quinn [kellyaquinn at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 8:28 PM
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Amazon Deletes Orwell from Kindles

What if a publisher sold the ebook for one price, then decided to pull
the Kindle plug for "copyright issues", just so they can sell it for a
higher price? I wouldn't be surprised if that's really what's
happening here.


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