July 18, 2009
We Do Not Carry George Orwell Books. We have never carried George Orwell books.
NP: OK Go, "Here It Goes Again"
You have to admit that, on some level, this story about Amazon going in and erasing copies of 1984 and Animal Farm is funny, solely for the high irony content.
And the process of acquiring licensing rights is fraught with these sorts of problems, so I'm not going to blame Amazon for at least this part of the issue any more than I would have blamed eMusic for thinking they had the rights to Frank Zappa's catalog way back when. Although eMusic didn't proactively delete songs that had been already downloaded.
This could be, if nothing else, an interesting byproduct of (or maybe obstacle to) the always-on, always-connected business model, and could seriously stimulate the discussion of who really owns what in the digital era. These have always been important questions, but it takes something like this to get more people thinking about it.
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