First podcast January 19, 2009.
A vintage new releases and recent arrivals talk with Carsten Schmitt.
HERE are the original shownotes.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Category: News
The SFFaudio Podcast #020 on YouTube
First podcast January 12, 2009.
Our talk talk acclaimed short story writer James Powell!
HERE are the vintage shownotes.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley on YouTube
One of the finest Science Fiction audiobooks on LibriVox, the novel that was the subject of SFFaudio Podcast #056, here it is …. The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley on YouTube.
A man awakes with amnesia. He is aboard a spaceship. He is a prisoner. He is gnorant of his crime and his name. His destination is the planet Omega. It is a prison planet from which there is no escape.
If you give it a five minutes, it’ll take you into the full five hours and you’ll know the truth of The Status Civilization!
The regular audiobook is available HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Rob Reid: Copyright Math on Ted Talks
Let Rob Reid try to make sense out of all the numbers dealing with copyright infringement at a recent Ted Talk. I saw this on TWIT.
Posted by Tamahome
Copyfraud by the Philip K. Dick estate for Philip K. Dick stories published in 1954 and 1955
I made this infographic for myself for while researching the Philip K. Dick stories published in the years 1954 and 1955.
I find it rather stunning to look at.
The data in BLACK all comes from the form filed on November 22, 1983 and submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office under Registration Number RE0000190631 (SEE THE ACTUAL SCANS HERE).
The RED and YELLOW highlights are my own notations.
As you can see the copyright claimants “Laura Coelho, Christopher Dick & Isa Dick” claimed 37 stories were published in 1955. This is false. Only the 12 stories were published in 1955. The remainder, all 25 of them (highlighted in RED), were actually published in 1954 in other magazines, books, or issues. The 12 stories that were genuinely eligible for renewal are correctly noted, the 25 submitted that were not eligible are false.
What do you make of that?
To me it looks like 25 cases of deliberate fraud. To me it looks like the public has been denied its rights to these stories for nearly three decades.
Maybe there’s a math whiz out there could tell us what the chances of making 25 honest clerical errors only in the 25 cases where the clerk’s client benefits, without, at the same time, making any similar mistakes in the 12 cases where a typo doesn’t accrue a benefit to the clerk’s client (namely in those cases where a story was actually eligible for a legal renewal).
What are the odds exactly?
Posted by Jesse Willis