Google Fined $15,000 A Day In Copyright Case

[Brother Adam]

I just spoke to a deacon tonight whose book is fully readable on Google and is not getting paid any royalties for it.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='19 December 2009 - 08:47 PM' timestamp='1261277246' post='2023301']
Where does the money come from to pay an author when their book is read?
[/quote]
Libraries pay a fee into the government. Don't know what they base it on. I know that the library here charges a yearly library card fee, except to the low income.

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='19 December 2009 - 09:47 PM' timestamp='1261277246' post='2023301']
Where does the money come from to pay an author when their book is read?
[/quote]

I let her answer first, Cmother.

In other words, many taxpayers who have never read and who never will read the author's book are paying the author. Do you perceive that as just?

~Sternhauser

Edited December 20, 2009 by Sternhauser

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='20 December 2009 - 12:55 AM' timestamp='1261284956' post='2023356']
Libraries pay a fee into the government. Don't know what they base it on. I know that the library here charges a yearly library card fee, except to the low income.
[/quote]
We don't pay for library cards here, our libraries are free to everyone. As far as I know authors do not get paid here either, except when their book is first sold by the publisher.

Sternie - Our libraries here, the Carnegies, are funded locally by a special 1% tax [RAD]that supports our libraries, parks, zoo, aquariums, symphonies etc. I have never met ANYONE grumble about that particular tax, because culture benefits us all. http://www.radworkshere.org/interior.php?pageID=43

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='20 December 2009 - 04:20 PM' timestamp='1261344001' post='2023563']
We don't pay for library cards here, our libraries are free to everyone. As far as I know authors do not get paid here either, except when their book is first sold by the publisher.

Sternie - Our libraries here, the Carnegies, are funded locally by a special 1% tax [RAD]that supports our libraries, parks, zoo, aquariums, symphonies etc. I have never met ANYONE grumble about that particular tax, because culture benefits us all. [url="http://www.radworkshere.org/interior.php?pageID=43"]http://www.radworksh...r.php?pageID=43[/url]
[/quote]

You haven't met anyone grumble about that particular tax because it's the least oppressive. Jack it to 20% and see what happens. Just because you hit me with a small rock doesn't mean it's justified by it being "a lesson in mineral density."

The end does not justify the means.

~Sternhauser

Edited December 20, 2009 by Sternhauser

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='20 December 2009 - 05:47 PM' timestamp='1261345623' post='2023585']
Just because you hit me with a small rock doesn't mean it's justified by it being "a lesson in mineral density."


~Sternhauser
[/quote]

Thanks, I'm stealing that.