Roberto Tejada
@fullforeground
Art writer, historian, poet—arguments in the cross-cultural image environment.
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26-04-2011 04:32:42
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How do other small presses feel about Hachette v. Internet Archive? I side with Internet Archive culturally and politically, and I hope they win the legal arguments. Free public circulation of eBooks improves our ability to support writers, financially as well as culturally.
The shell game Hachette Books, Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 et. al. play is their claim to protect the rights of authors. But is that really the case? Whose interests are served by criminalizing Internet Archive? Do other small presses agree with Hachette's premise that IA hurts authors?
The legal foundation of Hachette Books's attack on Internet Archive is the exclusive rights contract. They can claim to defend author's rights because authors signed all their rights away. Bad move. Authors: use nonexclusive rights contracts. Keep your work in circulation.
Grateful to Jeremy Lybarger for inviting me to write about Roque and the dark angels he wrestled with in his Poemas clandestinos.
Thanks to Roberto Tejada for the generous blurb for my forthcoming book Watcha: “Watcha ignites the poetic imagination with its self-defining ‘photographic progression’ of bilingual experience in sight and sound. At the interface where speech impersonates the attributes of
