Pass this link along.
http://www.immonen.ca/news/archives/963
Someone stole images and text from a guy’s blog and bound them into a book that they’re selling for $100. None of the text or images belong to him. And it’s a book of interviews, so more than one artist has had his work stolen.
I’m sure the book’s buyers don’t know that the work is stolen, either. The thieves were clever in that practically all the info given about them and the publisher is fake, and there’s no way to contact them directly.
Some unsuspecting bookstore chain might be tricked into buying books from these criminals! Where does that leave the original artists who were stolen from?
Wow, that’s total B.S. Chalk up being a dick next to China’s human rights violations.
Posted to Facebook. Wow, I feel for these guys - I would be sick if this happened to me…Actually, I feel kind of sick thinking about it happening to them! Dad-blasted pirates! Not so funny in real life, is it?
Wow. Just wow. Hong Kong might be different, but I had a seminar in which a guy talked about the publishing industry in China and it was…amazingly complex.
The major official publishing companies would sell their government-distributed ISBN numbers to smaller ‘Cultural Exchange’ companies who would actually publish a given book. Or they’d get around the problems with magazine distribution (obtaining magazine ISBNs being difficult) by publishing each issue as…a book, with a book ISBN, but otherwise like a magazine. Stuff like that.
Someone ought to hook these guys up with the EFF or something, or maybe CBLDF.