tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156209923311553716.post5490258384611014830..comments2023-09-08T08:20:12.018-04:00Comments on The Lyons' Den UPDATED: Pirate issuesBrennaLyonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17399508130752035374noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156209923311553716.post-38977699609524021122009-03-20T18:30:00.000-04:002009-03-20T18:30:00.000-04:00Pirates are driving me crazy. They make me sick. I...Pirates are driving me crazy. They make me sick. I think it's going to get worse before it gets better. This is the first I heard of the ebay thing.Susan Gourley/Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02669793865290876168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156209923311553716.post-61126739330487169292009-03-19T23:11:00.000-04:002009-03-19T23:11:00.000-04:00Brenna, I not only got a laugh, but you wound me u...Brenna, <BR/><BR/>I not only got a laugh, but you wound me up again. This pirate was truly stupid, and I so agree with you when you said, stupidity should be painful. Nice post!<BR/><BR/>JudeJude Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14067166768734750026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156209923311553716.post-62820844221607058762009-03-19T04:13:00.000-04:002009-03-19T04:13:00.000-04:00Hi Brenna, thanks for sharing this. It's amazing h...Hi Brenna, thanks for sharing this. It's amazing how low some people will go.<BR/><BR/>Joan De La Haye<BR/>http://joandelahaye.wordpress.com/Joan De La Hayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05667603691133511574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156209923311553716.post-4335685090582956352009-03-18T19:11:00.000-04:002009-03-18T19:11:00.000-04:00I don't think she's stupid so much as not wanting ...I don't think she's stupid so much as not wanting to admit you are right, Brenna.Gerri Bowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11517461664702276613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156209923311553716.post-41209063002182744922009-03-18T07:37:00.000-04:002009-03-18T07:37:00.000-04:00Another question raised that I feel deserves an an...Another question raised that I feel deserves an answer... But, don't you forfeit copyright by giving it away as a free read?<BR/><BR/>The answer, as I understand it, is "no." Let's start at the beginning and work out from there.<BR/><BR/>You own copyright on anything you create. You don't have to sell it to own it. For instance, if I played a piece of music in a free concert in the park (music I either composed and/or that I'd made a recording of personally ... committing it to a permanent form that is copyright protected that way...even if I further gave that recording away), and someone illegally recorded it and sold it...or used the free recording I'd offered in his book video, he is still infringing on my copyright by doing so. If I write this blog post, and someone takes the thing (in its entirety, without my permission) and reposts it elsewhere, I can have it taken down on the basis of infringement. Now...this may vary from country to country, but that's the way she works, according to the legal discussions I've seen on the matter. In the same way, you can record songs off the radio, but you can't sell the tape or CD you make for your personal use, though you don't pay to access it. The artists and music companies still expect to get paid for the sales of their copyright materials.<BR/><BR/>Where it MIGHT fail the logic test would be that I've given blanket permission to reproduce (in its current form, with no changes) and distribute. I have NOT given permission for anyone to sell that story. So, no one has the right to sell it...ever, without my permission to do so. If someone takes that story and includes it (without my permission) in an anthology of work, I have every right to sue them.<BR/><BR/>Two different matters. One involves simply pirating, and I don't care about someone pirating a free read. It serves my purposes. But, any commercial use of my work is certainly my concern and should be.<BR/><BR/>From the actual Copyright FAQS...<BR/><BR/>“Publication” is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale OR other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display constitutes publication.<BR/><BR/>IOW, the Copyright Office does not set that something must SELL to be copyright protected. Distribution is enough...even distribution with the intent of further distribution.<BR/><BR/>Now, while they say that public performance alone is not enough to copyright a work (notice my earlier example of the free concert in the park), if the composition is your own work and/or you have made available for distribution an "official copy" of the performance, you are still protected by copyright.BrennaLyonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17399508130752035374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156209923311553716.post-35190630270095470412009-03-18T07:15:00.000-04:002009-03-18T07:15:00.000-04:00Brenna,Thank you for this immensely entertaining, ...Brenna,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for this immensely entertaining, informative, and gracious account of a very trying situation.<BR/><BR/>I think I'll mosey over to EBay and see if I can figure out who this unscrupulous thief is!<BR/><BR/>Best wishes,<BR/>Rowena CherryRowena Cherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12892608556593937885noreply@blogger.com