Winter Beer Festival
Jan. 20th, 2012 12:35 pmIs anyone else thinking of going to the winter beer festival this Sat (http://www.cambridgebeerfestival.com/viewnode.php?id=207)?
Jan. 20th, 2012
Do you remember back in the good old days, when people would talk about the publisher of a word processor claiming rights over the books written in it as a joke? As a humorous reductio-ad-absurdum to illustrate how out there something else was? Because obviously no-one would ever try to do that.
Rant about Apple iBook Author, whose license terms tell you to sell books produced only via iBookstore: http://venomousporridge.com/post/16126436616/ibooks-author-eula-audacity
To be fair to the other side, a rebuttal in the telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9028628/iBooks-Author-Apple-doesnt-want-to-own-your-book.html which (a) says its ok because you weren't using those rights anyway and (b) asserts very strongly that Apple don't claim to own your book, although don't provide any justification of that. (I mean, they can't sell it without your permission, but you can't sell it without their permission either: I can't see the difference.) I mean, I can see why it makes sense: this is designed to make books which only work in the apple walled garden, and it's obviously good for apple if they make a monopoly over ebooks, so I'm not surprised, but also it still doesn't seem like a nice idea.
Rant about Apple iBook Author, whose license terms tell you to sell books produced only via iBookstore: http://venomousporridge.com/post/16126436616/ibooks-author-eula-audacity
To be fair to the other side, a rebuttal in the telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9028628/iBooks-Author-Apple-doesnt-want-to-own-your-book.html which (a) says its ok because you weren't using those rights anyway and (b) asserts very strongly that Apple don't claim to own your book, although don't provide any justification of that. (I mean, they can't sell it without your permission, but you can't sell it without their permission either: I can't see the difference.) I mean, I can see why it makes sense: this is designed to make books which only work in the apple walled garden, and it's obviously good for apple if they make a monopoly over ebooks, so I'm not surprised, but also it still doesn't seem like a nice idea.