From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:59:36 +0100

Sandy, thanks.  The most trenchant sentence in that piece is:  "But I
have a feeling that Amazon’s default standing is that they simply
won’t sell anything at all out of the territories where they know
absolutely that they have the rights."

That feels astute.  Absent absolute assurance of rights, they will
assume they have no rights and will utter mumbo-jumbo about why they
can't do perfectly reasonable things.

Jim O'Donnell


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:56 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:04:32 -0500
>
> Perhaps this throws some light (or yet more darkness) on the question?
>
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/10/23/but-why-would-amazon-wipe-your-kindle-to-protect-amazon/
>
> Sandy Thatcher
>
>
>> From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:59:42 +0100
>>
>> German copyright law does not allow, as English and US law do, for the
>> type of clause that assigns future rights that have not yet been
>> invented.  Hence it would not have been possible for the original
>> contracts for those books to include electronic rights
>>
>> Sally Morris
>> South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:08:45 -0400
>>
>> All interests are indeed aligned.  That doesn't mean the situation
>> will change anytime soon.  I don't know the particulars of the volume
>> you referenced, but for many books, in any language, the problem is
>> the retrospective clearing of rights.  It has a big administrative
>> cost. (This is also the primary reason for the orphan works problem.)
>> There are also different rights issues for print and electronic books.
>>
>> A couple years ago I worked with a client that had set up a
>> French-language Web site for academic titles.  It was print only.  50%
>> of the sales for that site came from outside France.
>>
>> Joe Esposito