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HUGE This Month: the Quiz 3 Double Plus Ungoods: 4 Amazon Unpublishes General Meeting: August 18 Orwell 6 Newsletter of the Hartford User Group Exchange August, 2009 The PULP Contents: HUGE this month: The Quiz 3 Double Plus Ungoods: 4 Amazon Unpublishes General Meeting: August 18 Orwell 6 No Topic--Questions Welcome 7 Open Discussion Calendar 10 See you there! East Hartford Public Library Main St. & Central Ave., East Hartford, CT. Q&A Session: 7:00PM–7:30PM Meeting starts at: 7:30PM VOLUME 28 ISSUE 8 Page 1 Newsletter of the Hartford User Group Exchange August, 2009 The PULP is published monthly by and for members of the Hartford User MEETING LOCATIONS Group Exchange, Inc. (HUGE). HUGE is a nonprofit organization whose East Hartford Public aim is to provide an exchange of information between users of personal Library computers. The PULP is not in any way affiliated with any computer Main & Central Avenue manufacturer or software company. Original, uncopyrighted articles in the Lion’s appearing in the PULP may be reproduced without prior permission by Room(downstairs) other nonprofit groups. Please give credit to the author and the PULP, and send a copy to HUGE. The opinions and views herein are those of the Wethersfield Public authors and not necessarily those of HUGE. Damages caused by use or abuse of information appearing in the PULP are the sole responsibility of Library 500 Silas Deane the user of the information. We reserve the right to edit or reject any articles Hwy., Wethersfield, CT submitted for publication in the PULP. Trademarks used in this publication belong to the respective owners of those trademarks. Editors Corner Thought we’d try another open session meeting, mostly so I don;t have to prepare.. For September, the topic will be “What Printer is Right for Me?” and in October we’ll try to take a similar look at HDTVs. Just in case you are one of the few that haven’t heard of Dave Carroll & the Sons of Maxwell Here is the approriate copyright citation and and their “small problem” with United Airlines-- a link to the full text. articles from “Tidbits” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOq ozo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- nd/3.0/ Finally, (a year later) there is a followup -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_X- Qoh__mw Please note that the clubs PO Box has been closed. When membership renewals go out in the fall the return Stuart Rabinowitz, Editor-in-Chief address will be that of our Membership person Richard Sztaba. VOLUME 28 ISSUE 8 Page 2 Newsletter of the Hartford User Group Exchange August, 2009 A Little Computer Quiz by Stuart Rabinowitz Answers to July, 2009 Quiz The trivia and minutiae of the computer related world. The 1 Some of you may remember "Bob" that answers will appear next month or 'cute' computer interface that has you can submit an answer sheet at consistently been rated as one of the top ten the General Meeting. Good Luck. worst software applications of all time, but what company released it? A Microsoft in March, 1995 1 Who put the 'dot' in 'dot-com'? 2 Who was the Project Manager? 2 An on-going computer discussion A Melinda (French) Gates was the Product is whether it Is better to turn off Unit Manager and Karen Fries was the Product the computer or leave it on. When Leader did this question first come up? 3 What is the EFF? 3. Before the Internet came into being, some 4 Who were the founders and amateurs invented an international network when? for exchange of mail and files using the public 5 Who was the their first client? telephone network. What was it called? A. Fidonet. 4 When did it get started? A It was born in June 1984 when Tom Jennings (Fido #1 in San Francisco) sent a trial message to his friend John Madil (Fido #2 in Baltimore). Fidonet consists of about 30,000 systems (in early 1999, down from 38,000 in 1996 due to advent and easy The garage pictured in last accessibility of Internet) worldwide grouped month’s issue belonged to into six geographical zones. It is an amateur Dave Packard and was the electronic mail system. As such its birthplace of HP. participants and operators are unpaid volunteers. cont. on pg. 9 VOLUME 28 ISSUE 8 Page 3 Newsletter of the Hartford User Group Exchange August, 2009 what Amazon has previously said Double Plus Ungoods: Amazon Unpublishes about the rights it gives Kindle Orwell subscribers, and what this bodes for by Glenn Fleishman <[email protected]> the future. article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/10417> **In the Public Good** -- George Orwell died in 1950, which presents a spot of Amazon ripped two George Orwell books, difficulty related to his copyright. In their hearts still beating, from the Kindles of some countries, his works are in the its customers. Reaction to the move public domain, but not in the United provoked a firestorm of opinion related to States. Generally uniform international ownership and permission, and Amazon copyright law was adopted in the swore off deleting customers' content from 1970s, and modified in loose harmony the Kindle again. However, the firm also since then. found itself in an awkward position, one that Current U.S. law puts works published most reports seem to have ignored or before 1923 in stark relief: they're all in glossed over. the public domain. Added to this is the set of works published between 1923 <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/techn and 1950, which were initially allowed a ology/companies/18amazon.html > single 28-year term, and later offered a The blast erupted from Amazon deleting renewal term of the same duration. two works - in a stunning bit of poetic Works in that period that weren't reality, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal renewed are now in the public domain. Farm" - that it says a third-party Kindle All other works have been swept into content publisher lacked the rights to offer a new regime that provides a super- for sale. The publisher, MobileReference, long extension. And all works created sells formatted versions of public-domain since 1977 are covered for an author's works, among other titles. life plus 70 years. (For a full rundown, see the section, "The Variety of Works <http://www.mobilereference.com/#literature under Discussion," in "Authors and > Publishers Settle with Google Book Amazon certainly made the wrong move by Search," 2009-10-29, and also Peter deleting the books remotely without advance Hirtle's "Copyright and the Public warning, taking along with them any Domain in the United States.") associated bookmarks and notes. There was no question that customers purchased the <http://db.tidbits.com/article/9837> books in good faith. However, the company <http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/reso was also certainly required to resolve a urces/publicdomain.cfm> situation in which it was violating copyright. Orwell's works were published before It's worth looking at how this situation - a his death in the United Kingdom, and a somewhat unusual case - arose, along with search at the U.S. Copyright Office VOLUME 28 ISSUE 8 Page 4 Newsletter of the Hartford User Group Exchange August, 2009 shows that "Animal Farm" was first States, we have the right to possess it registered here in 1950. Ostensibly, all forever, pass it on to heirs as part of an these valuable works had their terms estate, burn or deface it, loan it and renewed, too. (Initial registration isn't expect its return, donate it, and resell it. required, but establishes ownership and The new owner has the same set of triples damages in successful lawsuits; rights. (Notably, those rights weren't renewal was required, however.) always crystal clear; the first-sale Any work that was published with U.S. doctrine that allows resale, for instance, formalities (such as copyright notice has been litigated, but upheld.) and renewal) had its copyright extension revised to be 95 years from the initial <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First- copyright registration. "Animal Farm" is sale_doctrine> thus under copyright protection in the When we purchase digital media, whether United States until 2040; "Nineteen music, video, or books, we are nearly Eighty-Four" is protected until 2044. always purchasing a license, not obtaining In Australia, however, changes in ownership. We typically, but not always, copyright law vary for authors who died cannot resell what we buy, because we're before and after 1954, and don't take obtaining a perfect digital copy. That into account a work's publication date. implies that a publisher or rights holder Australia extends copyright to 50 years can't be sure that we've deleted a work after death for authors who died in 1954 when we pass it on, even though there are or earlier, and to 70 years after death ways to ensure that in systems that for authors who passed thereafter. All restrict the right to pass works on. of Orwell's works are available online at Apple's iTunes Store agreement is pretty no cost at various Australian sites. typical, in that it says we receive specific (Project Gutenberg in Australia has a non-commercial, personal rights to nice summary of that country's rights.) playback limited by digital rights management technology. For iTunes Plus <http://gutenberg.net.au/submissions.ht music, which is DRM-free and all that ml> Apple now offers for music, you're asked While MobileReference hasn't yet to self-limit what you do. commented publicly, the firm seems to But Apple's agreement has a nifty little traffic entirely in public domain works statement in it that has long made some and thinly assembled reference people wary of buying anything from the documents (biographies of all U.S.
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