We are a Pagan congregation that is encountering entrenched discrimination
in upstate New York and currently in court fighting for our rights as a
minority religion.

Filed under: Causes, Faith, Pagan

A Reversal of Copyright Law

Last Friday we summarized the basic details of the Google Book Search Settlement. Like the visual arts “databases” we opposed last year, this agreement would allow both Google and a yet-to-be-created Book Rights Registry to commercially profit from an author’s work whenever they say they can’t locate the author.

Both schemes would force authors to opt out of commercial operations that infringe their work – or to “protect” their work by opting-in to privately owned databases run by infringers. This Hobson’s Choice for authors reverses the principle of copyright law.

Filed under: Causes, Copyright, Orphan Works