QuickTopic (SM) free message boards QuickTopic (SM) free message boards
Skip to Messages
  Sign In to access your topic list  |New Topic |My Topics|Profile
Upgrade to Pro   Customize, show pictures, add an intro, and more:   QuickTopic Pro...and check out QuickThreadSM
Topic: Publishing Catchall
Printer-Friendly Page
Subscribe to get & post, or stop messages by email Subscribe
All messages            455-470 of 470  439-454 >>
About these ads
Who | When
Messagessort recent-top   
Post a new message
 
LMM  455
01-27-2006 02:13 AM ET (US)
What a whiney little bitch.

What happened to the dude who used fuck every other word and talked about how he was going to beat up Dave Eggars and steal the throne of Norman Mailer?
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  456
01-27-2006 07:30 AM ET (US)
Now, now. Would we have as much bile if Oprah were a man? I would hope so. But in reality, she was duped too... the difference and fatal fact is, she has a team of people who are supposed to check these things out. And some of them did and warned her against it. And she went ahead with the book anyway because she knew the impact it would have. Tears. And money. My problem with Oprah isn't the power she wields. It's how she wields it. And that she passes her "brand" off as cultural goodness when it's really all bent on making more money.

G
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  457
01-27-2006 09:41 AM ET (US)
Edited by author 01-27-2006 09:43 AM
I am creating a new discussion topic called "Literary Scandals"... please move the Oprah discussion there.

G
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  458
01-27-2006 09:42 AM ET (US)
Going out of print: as natural as death

And as scary, I would think.

Consider, then, the duration of copyrights. They've gone from 28 years renewable to 56, then 28 renewable to 95, to life of the author plus 70. Given the range of human lifespans and the extreme rarity of prepubescent authors, you can pretty much figure that by the time a 95-year copyright runs out, the author will be dead and gone, and any offspring will have reached their majority. You can't exactly draw a line, but somewhere in there, copyright stops being about directly rewarding an author for his work. What's left is an intangible time-travelling value: the hope of being read.

(From BoingBoing)


Home
ZW  459
01-27-2006 10:13 AM ET (US)
Here's a question: to counteract the potential silencing effect of near-perpetual copyright, can an author bequeath his works to the public domain on his death?
JFI  460
01-28-2006 11:19 AM ET (US)
Z -- that might work for works that are already out of print and to which the author has sole title. (I've asked someone who would know far better than I and will post if the response turns out to be interesting.)

If the works are in print or the copyright is jointly held (depending on a book's contract, rights may not automatically revert to the author once the book is out of print), this probably couldn't be binding.
   461
09-25-2006 08:07 PM ET (US)
Deleted by topic administrator 09-26-2006 05:37 PM
Gileppe  462
11-16-2007 04:15 AM ET (US)
Alert for all travellers to North America: Abuse of Human Rights and Privacy Violations:

Racially intolerant white canadian cops and security and their henchmen claim to be

despots; following parasitically in the footsteps of their american counterparts, and

wilfully engage in their racial profiling of non-whites, in racial harassment of

non-whites, and in racially dehumanizing attempts to racially harass non-whites through

intimidating physically, mentally, and spiritually; portraying their racial hatred of

non-whites through causing wilfull and dehumanizing disturbance to non-whites through using

illegal wall-see-through technologies and audio-bugs on non-whites' homes; through

listening and watching through the walls of non-whites' rented and owned homes, and

through their internet and private telephones. The perpetuators of these evil deeds do this

from their cars using illegal equipment slyly given to them by the unworthy cops, and then
accelerating their cars loudly and intimidatingly near non-whites' homes and driving

intimidatingly in presence of non-whites on streets, making threatening u-turns, driving

intimidatingly right up and over sidewalks when a non-white is on the sidewalk, and

throwing their ugly bullying weight around, in their shameless acts of cowardice. It is all

done slyly, supposedly smartly, however, they cannot fool all the people all the time. The

cops also participate themselves to wail their sirens abusively everytime non-whites move

and talk inside their rented and owned homes in daily routine living, in addition to having

their henchmen, and often, using their non-white gutless henchmen in cars, transport,

shopping centers, neighborhoods, etc, to commit these ugly harassing racially profiling
deeds at all times day and night. Using non-whites to engage in racial harassment of other

non-whites is an obnoxiously evil sinister humanely disgraceful intelligent move of the

whites well-known for their ugly divide and rule tactics through their non-white henchmen.

It's a shameful disgrace when the so called protectors of law turn into abusers of law

themselves and throw the weight of their uniforms and law around as cowards. So, they and

their henchmen, appear to be very law respecting on the outside; however, they network

cowardly to commit sly acts of provocation to non-whites all the time, which is supposed to
be legally acceptable. Is watching through walls of non-whites homes, bugging their homes,

working in networking syndicates against them, committing human rights and privacy

violations against them, supposedly lawful for the whites? Who makes those laws that favor
only the whites? The law itself has racism in its clauses. The ugly inner dirt of the

perpetuators of these evil deeds of racism do not deserve to step into religious

institutions for their ugly deeds - such as, if you ain't white, you ain't right? Oh!

Really? Nicely dressed, beautiful people, magnificient concrete jungles, clean roads and

lawns, sweet polite talkers on the outside, full of ugly stench in their souls, that is the
cause of these racist policies that are outrightly biased against non-whites. What a shame!

Most of these ugly acts of dehumanizing racial profiling depict the cowardice of the doers

of these deeds in the real sense, and are done at the behind the scenes insistence of the

racially intolerant white cops through their frontline stooges. However, without physical

evidence, the white cops, security, societies, and their henchmen are laughing sinisterly
at their heinous deeds and the legal system seems to support this evil through its

inability to take action without physical evidence. Their racial profiling penetrates

public transport systems, shops and stores to do all they can to make the non-whites feel

unwelcome in their dehumanizing acts of racial profiling against non-whites and those who

don't conform to their nonsense. The white cops, security, and white communities use their
henchmen who do just as they are told and from behind the safety cushion of their

oil-guzzling, pollution creating, often dark-glassed vehicles to intimidate and harass

non-whites in obnoxious racial profiling that reflects the immoral, despotic, and cowardly

behaviour of racially intolerant white cops, security, communities and their dumb henchmen
who do just as they are told, fuelled as they are in their racial frenzy, thanks to the

racially manipulative corporate controlled media.

For more information, visit:

http://www.yourluckytoday.blogspot.com

Volunteers are welcome to circulate this information to all they know to put an end to this

abuse and violations of human rights committed by immorally misbehaved white cops,

security, white communities, public transports, shops, stores, etc, and their dumb henchmen

who do just as they are told in their racial frenzy.

Save this information on your computers before any cowards remove it from the websites.

Racism is immoral and dehumanizing behaviour that reflects the "incapable to perform

humanely" quality of those who are racist and are being watched from God's court above in

ways they cannot be expected to be capable to perceive yet.

It's a shame when obnoxious stench of racism comes from people in so called rich countries.

It's even more of a shame when words are twisted by media to influence young minds with

lies. It's even more of a shame when so called authorities perpetuate racism and behave

racistly and enforce racist policies and behaviour through intimidating means amidst outer

sweet and polite talks. Racism seems to be prominent among so called white people in rich

countries who cannot bear non-whites from other countries of origin. Planet Earth belongs

to people of Earth. Highly educated people of high intellectual calibres, rich bosses and

CEOs, etc, of rich countries are a blotch on humanity and their material levels when they
haven't yet evolved to basic human concepts of all humans have red blood irrespective of

race.

Racism stems from social attitudes that are perpetuated by racist societies, the media, the

authoritarians, and the peers. It's time to say, shame on all those who perpetuate racism

and racist attitudes.

Thank you.
   463
02-21-2008 08:43 PM ET (US)
Deleted by topic administrator 02-22-2008 04:17 PM
wow gold  464
03-21-2008 09:38 PM ET (US)
mp4 player  465
04-10-2008 05:05 AM ET (US)
mp4 player china wholesale mp4 viedo player
china wholesale mp4 players
mp3 Player mp4 player
mp4 watch
www.ePathChina.com main products include Wholesale Electronics Digital Photo Frame mp4 players
wholesale digital cameras
wholesale digital camcorders
china car dvd player
china car video players
epthchina China Wholesale Electronics ePathChina emphasizes product quality and good service for our clients.
pandora battery  466
04-11-2008 12:18 PM ET (US)
Pandora Battery downgrade and unbrick Any Version PSP,This pandora battery and Memory card will work with any PSP to repair/unbricked or to downgrade.. Buy Pandora Battery Tachyon despertar_cementerio V4 Repair/Unbricked/Downgrade Fat or Slim.
PSP Battery
Pandora Battery
Laptop Battery USA

BTP-42C1
BTP-1831
sunvalleyPerson was signed in when posted  467
04-16-2008 05:39 AM ET (US)
   468
05-13-2008 08:28 AM ET (US)
Deleted by topic administrator 05-17-2008 10:05 AM
crul  469
06-04-2008 06:34 AM ET (US)
battery  470
06-16-2008 11:26 PM ET (US)
RSS link What's this?
All messages            455-470 of 470  439-454 >>
QuickTopicSM message boards
Over 200,000 topics served
Learn more Frequently asked questions  Acknowledgements
What they're saying about QuickTopic
 Questions, comments, or suggestions? Contact Us
Read our use policy before beginning. We value your privacy; please read our privacy statement.
Copyright ©1999-2008 Internicity Inc. All rights reserved.