Regular readers of my blog probably remember my endless discussions about copyright. Every time that I see a song in my profile “deleted by the author” I ask to myself: don’t they understand that if I hear a song and I like, chances are that I will buy the CD?
It seems that they don’t. Even Frank Sinatra, dead for more than a decade, deleted his song from my profile (of course it was not him, but the record company).
During this trip to Madrid/Zurich/Davos/Munich, I had a chance to talk about copyright and internet. In my speech for DLD 08, I mention myspace and these deleted songs. I went further, and said, for the first time, that I have a Pirate site, where readers can read my books before buying them. There was un uproar from the industry (that reacted bad), and the communities in internet (that reacted in a positive way). If you type “Pirate Coelho” in google, at the moment that I am writing this, there is more than 600 entries.
To illustrate my position, I am doing a copy/paste of an article published yesterday in Fortune 500. I did not ask permission to David Kirkpatrick, the journalist, but I am sure he will not mind.
Love
Paulo
P.S. – If you want to see my speech in DLD 08, go to
http://torrentfreak.com/alchemist-author-pirates-own-books-080124/
The video is long, but my speech takes only the first 20 minutes of it.
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