Friday, February 11, 2022

Digital Copyrights

 

There shouldn’t be any distortion in the hereinunder flow:

Start -> Author -> Publisher -> Distributor (if any, of publisher(s)) -> Seller -> End User -> Stop.

For example, In 2009, Amazon Kindle had to delete e-book copies of 1984 & Animal Farm at the end user’s accounts’ as there was a break in the above chain work flow, as the uploading publisher had no relevant rights directly with author or its assigned publisher or distributor, thus leaving Amazon not having rights to execute contract with the end user buyers/readers’ (somewhat similar to void-ab-initio).

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