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From: Greg Allen <greg@gregallen.com>
Date: July 18, 2009 8:29:35 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Update on Kindle book removals
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/
http://wikilivres.info/wiki/George_Orwell
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:18 AM, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message:Doesn't sound as nefarious as first considered. Instead, Amazon seems to be protecting itself from a copyright claim.From: David Ian Hopper <imhopper@gmail.com>Date: July 17, 2009 9:42:02 PM EDTTo: dave@farber.netSubject: Update on Kindle book removalsUpdate 2: Drew Herdener, Amazon.com's Director of Communications, pinged us directly with the following comment, and now things are starting to make a lot more sense. Seems as if the books were added initially by an outfit that didn't even have the rights!
These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books. When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers. We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances.
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