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IP: Tim O'Reilly on Amazon used book sales & the intellectual commons
From: David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:40:45 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: Sara Winge <sara () oreilly com> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:18:16 To: farber () central cis upenn edu Subject: Tim O'Reilly on Amazon used book sales & the intellectual commons Dave, On his way out the door, Tim asked me to send along a link to his blog posting from today. He's written a letter to the Author's Guild, supporting Amazon's stance in selling used books. Jeff Bezos's original letter to authors, asking for their support, and Tim's response are at: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1291 IPers might be especially interested in Tim's closing comments, where he ties the issue to the larger one of copyright and the "intellectual commons": I'll add here the thought that used books are an important part of the intellectual commons, which Larry Lessig so ably defends in his wonderful book, The Future of Ideas. The idea that reselling used books is somehow bad continues down a slippery slope that our lawmakers, prodded by copyright interests, have already traveled so far. Cheers, Sara ---------------------------------- Sara Winge sara () oreilly com VP, Corporate Communications O'Reilly & Associates 1005 Gravenstein Highway North , Sebastopol, CA 95472 +1 707.827-7109, Fax +1 707.829.0104, http://www.oreilly.com For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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