Useful info.

Not clear when things changed from the early arrangements.

"Stole" meaning "deleted 122GB of my music from my hard drive". Yuck.

No change to Freedom of Panorama.

Inside the debate.

How copyright law has changed since 1978.

Francis explains.

M.C.A. Hogarth's problems with Fames Workshop.

I'm a fan of readability with my middle-aged eyes.

Apparently someone copied the text by hand from Joyce's unpublished archives, and then somehow it reached the Dublin publisher. A legal grey zone, but surely rather clear ethically!

"How is the current situation when amoral third parties can profit so massively from wholly illegal behaviour in any way acceptable? Answer me that and I’ll give you a free book."

It was barely a year ago that a web-based collaboration of scientists and citizens demonstrated that Mr zu Guttenberg's doctoral thesis was shamelessly plagiarised from over 130 different sources... Commissioner Kroes justified her choice of consultant saying she wanted "talent, not saints". Yet surely the fact that Mr zu Guttenberg…

"I recently bought a cheap e-reader from Waterstone’s, and am very happy with it so far. I’ve been using it to read books from Project Gutenberg, papers from the Arxiv, ebooks from Baen, books by Charles Stross and so on.One thing I will be doing very little of, unfortunately, is buying new books to read on it."

If the case that The Huffington Post were making to its bloggers were a little more frank, along the lines of the following: "Sure, we’d love for you to post here. And there’s the chance that your post could do very well. But odds are that only a few hundred people will see it, and we’ll be lucky to sell enough ads on it to afford a slice of …

Lots and lots of links to the current online debate about piracy.

Tim Spalding sounds the alarm about the effect of ebooks on publishing.

"So if you were inclined to illegally download anyone’s book, if you’re one of the people trying to find an illegal download of my brand new book that’s not even in stores yet: please buy it. Or check it out. Or ask for a review copy. "Or please read another book that’s instantly, and legally, available to you so that books continue to b…

Paul gives his views on e-books and piracy

Some of the books are not in fact by advisers.

Thoughtful economic analysis of it all

What if your Kindle is lost or stolen?

Copyright: an author speaks