What is fiction?

A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/


http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405148641/9781405148641.xml&chunk.id=ss1-3-1&toc.id=0&brand=9781405148641_brand

Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. How do we balance the rights of creators and the rights of society in general to use and enjoy creations?


http://hotdocs.usitc.gov/docs/pubs/research_working_papers/wp_id_05.pdf


Paying authors salaries instead of royalties is one possibility. But who pays? And who gets paid?

More on literary piracy

http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com/search/label/digital%20book%20piracy

digital literary piracy

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=705&doc_id=176675

If writers have enough money, is it okay to steal their work?

Cory Doctorow is an author I admire, but he has made his mark and earned his fame and fortune. He doesn't need to worry where his next meal is coming from. Is it okay to steal his work?



http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2or009-05-13/the-literary-life/

More on the effects of piracy on writers

http://www.thespec.com/article/567235

What does a writer have to do to get paid for writing?

How should writers be paid for their work?

Will literary piracy will take away writers' motivation to write? A british authors' society claims it may.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3648813.ece

This brings up the question of how should writers be paid for their work? Writers just want to write and be paid for it so they don't have to work multiple jobs (is that so much to ask?), but digital piracy steals bread from authors' mouths (and the mouths of their children). Should fiction writers be subsidized with grants? Will writing grant proposals take up all of the creative time and energy writers need to create fiction?