Thanks to everyone for the comments and apologies for igniting the whole debate again. I thought I would collect all my responses together and put them out as a post.
- My position: personally I think DRM is a pain and try and avoid it as much as possible. Professionally I recognise that as a publisher [...]
Round 2: DRM Is Not Totally 100% Evil But Sometimes Gets Close…
on 15 July, 2009 – 4:50 pm
Posted in Copyright, General, Publishing
DRM Is Not Evil
on 14 July, 2009 – 4:39 pm
Posted in Copyright, General, Publishing
At Pan Macmillan we are no great fans of DRM. For a while now we have been selling a limited range of titles DRM free from our website; these are titles where the authors have requested that we retail sans DRM. Many writers are in favour of this, and so we see as it [...]
Scraping Fiction
on 3 January, 2008 – 4:44 pm
Posted in Copyright, read/write culture
Following on from James’ post about fan fiction, it seems that some of the issues are not just applicable to content as such, but also the wider concept of data.
The idea behind scraping is simple: a program takes information from a web page and translates it to another webpage. It means that websites can, [...]
For fans of fan fiction
on 20 December, 2007 – 5:36 pm
Posted in Copyright, read/write culture
There’s been some discussion on blogs recently about the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), which is a new “nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.”
