{"id":1404,"date":"2009-07-18T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2009-07-18T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T18:00:13","slug":"more-to-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/07\/18\/more-to-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"More to the story"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhen we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 devices, and refunded customers,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 he said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/18\/technology\/companies\/18amazon.html?_r=1\">Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Three things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How hard would it have been for Amazon to email the customers in advance of the deletion? (BTW, I&#8217;m a big Amazon fan, but they totally screwed up here)<\/li>\n<li>What do &#8220;U.S.&#8221; rights and &#8220;Australian&#8221; rights mean in today&#8217;s world? It doesn&#8217;t make sense. Movies that are released in one market but not another, books that are released on different dates in different countries, CDs that are released as &#8220;imports&#8221; with different tracks. Stupid.<\/li>\n<li>How long is copyright anyway? I thought that <em>1984<\/em> was in the public domain? (I know I read it online, perhaps &#8220;illegally&#8221;)\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhen we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 devices, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-mE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}