It's not my unborn great, great (...) grandchildren who Liebowitz is trying to protect, it's the corporation -- the movie studio or record label or publishing house. Or maybe it's The Captain Jim Estate, Inc., established by my ex-wife's legal team.
If somebody is going to profit from my work after I die, it had better be the people who outlawyered me while I was alive, not some random librarian or teenage mashup artist on YouTube. Let's sue those lawbreaking bastards for everything they're worth.
That's why ebooks are in turmoil right now. Authors and publishers have an unprecedented opportunity to stifle the future of the royalty-free used book market by making sure it doesn't get to exist in the electronic space.
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It's not my unborn great, great (...) grandchildren who Liebowitz is trying to protect, it's the corporation -- the movie studio or record label or publishing house. Or maybe it's The Captain Jim Estate, Inc., established by my ex-wife's legal team.
If somebody is going to profit from my work after I die, it had better be the people who outlawyered me while I was alive, not some random librarian or teenage mashup artist on YouTube. Let's sue those lawbreaking bastards for everything they're worth.