Update on Kindle book removals

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Greg Allen <greg () gregallen com>
Date: July 18, 2009 8:29:35 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Update on Kindle book removals

This is still an incomplete accounting of a troubling incident. Though  
Amazon doesn't sell the Kindle in either country, Orwell's works are  
in the public domain in both Australia and Canada.

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/
http://wikilivres.info/wiki/George_Orwell



On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:18 AM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:


Begin forwarded message:

From: David Ian Hopper <imhopper () gmail com>
Date: July 17, 2009 9:42:02 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Update on Kindle book removals

Doesn't sound as nefarious as first considered.  Instead, Amazon seems  
to be protecting itself from a copyright claim.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/17/amazon-remotely-deletes-orwell-e-books-from-kindles-unpersons-r/

Update 2: Drew Herdener, Amazon.com's Director of Communications,  
pinged us directly with the following comment, and now things are  
starting to make a lot more sense. Seems as if the books were added  
initially by an outfit that didn't even have the rights!
These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform  
by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books. 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. We are changing our systems so that in the future we will  
not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances.

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