B0rg3d

[hirez]

War3z d00ds, skinflints and the useless, front and centre.

Comments

[razornet.livejournal.com]

If you don't like this can your publishers not request this gets pulled? (I'll be buying my copy btw)

[steer.livejournal.com]

Good to get a chance to read that story again. :-)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Since I signed up for electronic editions, and am generally in favour of giving stuff away, it would be well out of order (geezah) for me to get a monk on about it.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's quite different from the version that was on LJ.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Excellent. It's a brilliant bit of work -- I really love it. Then, as you know, I have a thing for transport and for networks.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Is it a dodgy copy then? I thought it was a legit preview -- it just happens that it includes all of your story. It stops a couple of pages later.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm aware, it's as legit as everything else on Googlebooks.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Heh... the knowledge wants to be free!

[To my mind, it's probably pretty good for you that your story is one of the ones that everyone can see -- widens the audience -- you don't see Cory Doctrow starving after all.]

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Exactly so.

If I've a position on this sort of thing it's that I make the decision to give stuff away or not, and it's not really up to some 'copyfighter' elsewhere to bang on about 'fair use' after the event.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

And now I have my lunchtime reading. =D

[steer.livejournal.com]

I don't think you *do* make the decision you know. I mean there are laws on these things -- admittedly unclear and bewildering laws but nonetheless laws. I've done the "copy a book chapter and distribute to students" thing and done so because I believe I can claim fair use. Even if the author was a complete git who hated education and students (and who can blame them) I have a legal defence I think (no expert mind you).

In fact yours seems to be the only story included in full (the other story, bizarrely, has a single page missing). Falls completely within US fair use laws as I understand them to copy a single chapter or a single short story from a book.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for computers!

[drumiller.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Now I have to decide on deforesting the amazon e-version for my reader.

How's the writing going? Any new subs.. say that airship piece?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, it went out to Andromeda Spaceways yesterday. Given the vagaries of the international date-line, I expect there'll be rejectomancy over the weekend.

[drumiller.livejournal.com]

Great! I'm waiting for a couple markets to open and Analog to get back to me with my response sometime in the next 10-20 days. Fun innt?

[badnewswade.livejournal.com]

Skill! :-)