gluejar’s Comments

• Jan 15th, 2016 @ 9:37am

  Grimmelmann has an articla about this.

  on Copyright Question: Does David Bowie Get The Copyright On Computer Generated Lyrics?
  (he's a real law professor.) Abstract:
  
  Treating computers as authors for copyright purposes is a non-solution to a non-problem. It is a non-solution because unless and until computer programs can qualify as persons in life and law, it does no practical good to call them "authors" when someone else will end up owning the copyright anyway. And it responds to a non-problem because there is nothing actually distinctive about computer-generated works.
  
  There are five plausible ways in which computer-generated works might be considered meaningfully different from human-generated works: (1) they are embedded in digital copies, (2) people create them using computers rather than by hand, (3) programs can generate them algorithmically, (4) programmers as well as users contribute to them, and (5) programs can generate them randomly. But all of these distinctions are spurious. Old-fashioned pen-and-paper works raise all of the same issues. A close look at the creative process shows how little really changes when authors use digital tools. The problems posed for copyright by computer-generated works are not easy, but they are also not new.
  
  
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2699862
• Oct 8th, 2014 @ 11:49am

  NJ Privacy laws

  on Adobe's Half-Assed Response To Spying On All Your eBooks
  The NJ "Reader Privacy Act" is not law yet, as far as I can tell. I think it's badly drafted.
  
  http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/09/online-bookstores-to-face-stringent.html
  http://go-to-hellm an.blogspot.com/2014/09/emergency-governor-christie-could-turn.html
  
  Nonetheless, there are library records privacy laws in place in NJ that should apply.
  
  EFF is misleading; I don't think the California Reader Privacy Act applies to this case, though the CA library records privacy law Cal Gov Code § 6267 should make this illegal.
• Mar 7th, 2014 @ 6:47am

  flp.mobi is coming down

  on Disappointing: DMCA Being Used To Make Feynman Lectures On Physics Less Accessible
  I posted an update on my piece, linked in the story- The developer of flp.mobi is voluntarily taking the repo down, out of fear that Caltech/Perseus will take down the free website.
• Mar 29th, 2013 @ 6:46pm

  More on EMP domain registration

  on Edwin Mellen Press Demonstrates How Not To Respond To Criticism: With Lawsuits & Bogus Threats
  More on EMP domain registration http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/03/roy-tennant-digital-libraries/the-strange-case-of-edwin-melle n-press/
• Mar 29th, 2013 @ 6:41pm

  EMP registering domain names

  on Edwin Mellen Press Demonstrates How Not To Respond To Criticism: With Lawsuits & Bogus Threats
  University of Huddersfield librarian Dave Pattern has noticed that Edward Mellen Press appears to have registered domains based on the name of the librarian they're suing. (daleaskey.com etc.) Very spooky. The fear is that they might send emails purporting to be from Dale Askey. https://docs.google.com/a/gluejar.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao1CPRvGcG91dEdXQnpqOHo3dmZMUnZDd1hMM080N Gc#gid=0
• Jun 7th, 2012 @ 12:25pm

  Re: Thanks for the Mention

  on Author Using Kickstarter To Offer His Book To The Public Domain, And Help Other Creators To Do The Same
  Aaron, have you seen the recently launched Unglue.it? It aims to crowd-fund creative commons licensed ebooks.
  
  Why do you make it hard to get the CC0 books and ask people to buy them on Amazon? Or maybe the better question is why should readers patronize an author AND buy their books?