Apple's iBooks EULA Drawing Ire

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @10:10AM from the publish-and-perish dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with one of many articles about the iBooks EULA, this time questioning whether it is even enforceable. Quoting: "The iBooks Author EULA plainly tries to create an exclusive license for Apple to be the sole distributor of any worked created with it, but under the Copyright Act an exclusive license is a 'transfer of copyright ownership,' and under 17 U.S.C. 204 such a transfer 'is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed.' When authors rebel and take their work elsewhere, Apple has, at most, a claim for breach-of-EULA — but their damages are the failure to pay $0 for the program."

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Dead wrong by SuperKendall · 2012-01-24 11:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If Apple doesn't publish you. GAME OVER. The only way to get your book out there after that is to give it away...for free!
No, you simply re-format your content in some other tool and sell that.
Where do you Apple Haters get such thick skulls? Do you spend all day beating your head against logs with the aim of disallowing any logic or reason to enter?

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