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"Authors Guild" Skims Half of Google Book-Rights Settlement
Miracle Jones writes "A recent memo from the 'Author's Guild' to the writers and publishers that it supposedly represents shows that only $45 million of the $125 million dollar settlement with Google will be paid to writers, and that the most a writer can receive for a book is $300. Many people speculate that Google's monopoly over all of out-of-copyright works will result in a brutal monopoly that will hurt both writers and readers, and that the 'Author's Guild' had no right to make the deal in the first place. How will it all shake down? Should writers be paid at all for their work? Will Google be any good at the publishing racket?"
For a site that posts as many stories about copyright as Slashdot does, you'd think the editors would have at least a basic understanding of it.
Actually, my experience has been that the lot of them fail to grasp the most basic concepts of IP. The mantra is "All IP is bad except when you use copyright to enforce the GPL." As long as a submission fits that mantra, it will get posted, regardless of how inflammatory (or just flat-out wrong) it is.
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Just for clarity, what is the supposed position of the monkey relative to the darts and the dartboard and can this arrangement constitute animal cruelty?
Since working for Slashdot in any capacity constitutes an insult to the animal's intelligence, it could be considered animal cruelty.
Listen, penis breath, the guy asked a question. Rather than providing a smart assed answer, maybe you should just SHUT THE FUCK UP is you have nothing of value to add? Idiot.