Ursula Le Guin's Petition Against Google Books

Miracle Jones blogs about the petition against the Google Book Settlement created by science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin, winner of five Hugo awards and six Nebulas. Le Guin is urging professional writers who are opposed to the terms of the settlement to sign her online petition before the January 28th deadline. From the petition: "The free and open dissemination of information and of literature, as it exists in our Public Libraries, can and should exist in the electronic media. All authors hope for that. But we cannot have free and open dissemination of information and literature unless the use of written material continues to be controlled by those who write it or own legitimate right in it. We urge our government and our courts to allow no corporation to circumvent copyright law or dictate the terms of that control."

Comments

Re:Which corporations does Le Guin mean?

[jedidiah]

...once again another lying copyright maximalist trying to conflate copies of something with a physical thing that can only be in one place at once.

Re:Who?

[mgblst]

You sound so proud of your moronic ignorance. Congratulations, you can now go join the republican majority.

Re:I WILL claim the truth; I DO understand fully

[Zero__Kelvin]

"As long as authors are enthusiastically promoting this revolution instead of frustrating it, they have my full support when it comes to fair compensation for their efforts."

When both sides are making ludicrous claims the author isn't an expert and so doesn't know there is a middle ground and has to choose. If you want to blame someone blame the *IAAs and most of the people posting in this article for wrongly assessing the situation and proliferating misinformation in their attempt to "win".