Copyright American way

[Ernst Debets]

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Ik wordt een beetje schijtziek van die 1984 mentaliteit van de Yankees. Ik
dacht dat het met Obama snel afgelopen zou zijn, maar niets is minder waar.
Dpt. Of Homeland Security (opgericht door Doubleya na 9/11) blijkt onderhand
uitgegroeid te zijn tot een "staat in de staat".

Enige waarschuwingen voor een ieder die naar de USA afreist:

Alle paspoorten afgegeven naa 2005 moeten "machine readable" zijn.
Alle paspoorten afgegeven na 2006 moeten een chip met biometrische gegevens
bevatten.
Als je met het vliegtuig of met de boot (ik vraag me af of de veerboten
vanuit bijv. Victoria BC daar ook onder vallen) moet je uiterlijk 72 uur
voor aankomst je gegevens op de website van homeland security opgeven,
anders wordt je niet toegelaten. De enige manier om nog normaal de USA
binnen te komen zonder deze poespas vooraf schijnt via een grensovergang op
het land met Canada te zijn, vooropgesteld dat je ook weer via Canada naar
Europa terugreist.
(In Canada is het een stuk makkelijker, maar dat is dan ook Commonwealth
gebied :-))

Er is niemand die maar vertelt hoe lang je gegevens in de databases van
Homeland Security bewaard blijven.
En Balkje maar slijmen bij Obama. (Bah!!)

Ernst Debets/
Zaanstad

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Onderwerp: Copyright American way

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July 18, 2009
Mocht je naar de USA gaan, kun je beter je Kindle thuis laten.
Anders loop je de mogelijkheid op behoorlijke vertraging, misschien wel
een paar jaar ;)

Dit laatste als je er een boek op hebt staan dat nog 'in' copyright-modus
is daar. Copyrights lopen daar tientallen jaren langer dan in de rest van
de wereld.

En 'als' ze de inhoud checken, kun je behoorlijke problemen krijgen. Dit
wordt ook al gedaan met PC's, dus misschien zijn Kindle's next!

Groet / Cees

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html
Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
By BRAD STONE

In George Orwell's "1984," government censors erase all traces of news
articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration
chute called the "memory hole."

On Friday, it was "1984" and another Orwell book, "Animal Farm," that were
dropped down the memory hole - by Amazon.com.

In a move that angered customers and generated waves of online pique,
Amazon remotely deleted some digital editions of the books from the Kindle
devices of readers who had bought them.

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. "When we were notified of this by
the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from
customers' devices, and refunded customers," he said.

Amazon effectively acknowledged that the deletions were a bad idea. "We
are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books
from customers' devices in these circumstances," Mr. Herdener said.

Customers whose books were deleted indicated that MobileReference, a
digital publisher, had sold them. An e-mail message to SoundTells, the
company that owns MobileReference, was not immediately returned.

Digital books bought for the Kindle are sent to it over a wireless
network. Amazon can also use that network to synchronize electronic books
between devices - and apparently to make them vanish.

An authorized digital edition of "1984" from its American publisher,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, was still available on the Kindle store Friday
night, but there was no such version of "Animal Farm."

People who bought the rescinded editions of the books reacted with
indignation, while acknowledging the literary ironies involved. "Of all
the books to recall," said Charles Slater, an executive with a sheet-music
retailer in Philadelphia, who bought the digital edition of "1984" for 99
cents last month. "I never imagined that Amazon actually had the right,
the authority or even the ability to delete something that I had already
purchased."

Antoine Bruguier, an engineer in Silicon Valley, said he had noticed that
his digital copy of "1984" appeared to be a scan of a paper edition of the
book. "If this Kindle breaks, I won't buy a new one, that's for sure," he
said.

Amazon appears to have deleted other purchased e-books from Kindles
recently. Customers commenting on Web forums reported the disappearance of
digital editions of the Harry Potter books and the novels of Ayn Rand over
similar issues.

Amazon's published terms of service agreement for the Kindle does not
appear to give the company the right to delete purchases after they have
been made. It says Amazon grants customers the right to keep a "permanent
copy of the applicable digital content."

Retailers of physical goods cannot, of course, force their way into a
customer's home to take back a purchase, no matter how bootlegged it turns
out to be. Yet Amazon appears to maintain a unique tether to the digital
content it sells for the Kindle.

"It illustrates how few rights you have when you buy an e-book from
Amazon," said Bruce Schneier, chief security technology officer for
British Telecom and an expert on computer security and commerce. "As a
Kindle owner, I'm frustrated. I can't lend people books and I can't sell
books that I've already read, and now it turns out that I can't even count
on still having my books tomorrow."

Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old from the Detroit area, was reading "1984"
on his Kindle for a summer assignment and lost all his notes and
annotations when the file vanished. "They didn't just take a book back,
they stole my work," he said.

On the Internet, of course, there is no such thing as a memory hole. While
the copyright on "1984" will not expire until 2044 in the United States,
it has already expired in other countries, including Canada, Australia and
Russia. Web sites in those countries offer digital copies of the book free
to all comers.

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