Hurray for copyright
by Jon Shea
Jun 15, 07:00 AM
John Steinbeck’s heirs have sued Penguin Books for the rights to 10 of his works, which Penguin has printed exclusively for over 70 years, and won in Federal Court. NPR claimed that they planned to release the works to the public. Penguin, or course, plans to sue to get the rights back.
Jun 15, 08:06 AM
I thought Steinbeck was older than Mickey.
He is! Don’t they realize that the copyright is about to expire?
Jun 15, 08:11 AM
Excellent. I’m pleased to see a case where the courts remember that copyright is supposed to benefit the author of a book, not merely its publishers. (You may rant at me about the valuable necessity of publishing as a business, but I claim that is not what copyright should be protecting).