IP Converts -- Authors and Google
On the Sept. 3, 2008 show of Free Talk Live, the excellent libertarian radio program, there was an interesting discussion with a caller who is an author and has changed his mind about IP--he realized that by giving online versions of his book away on Amazon, he can sell more copies of it.
The recorded show is here; the IP discussion starts at the beginning, with the first caller, and lasts for a few minutes.
In other news, Google's new Chrome browser "is based on the open-source WebKit architecture, and Google claims that its code will be open source, so it's unlikely that the company is trying to corner the market on browser functionality, since innovations are eminently copyable." I.e., Google's not trying to lock Chrome's code down with copyright. It's not afraid of competition.
Comments (3)
Person
he realized that by giving online versions of his book away on Amazon, he can sell more copies of it.
You're kidding. He actually claimed that? He didn't realize that the whole time he was prohibiting others from selling physical copies?
Published: September 4, 2008 10:43 AM
ktibuk
I happened to witness a similar thing.
A supermarket owner and a cheese maker were arguing. I can't give a link to the whole argument but after the argument cheese maker realized that by giving free samples of cheese he can sell more cheese.
But I don't remember anybody claiming the cheese maker can not own the cheese he made because of this, but a few kooky socialists.
Published: September 4, 2008 3:23 PM
scineram
You of course own the book you make!
Published: September 4, 2008 5:45 PM