The story unfolds here in reverse chronolical order. Note well: It took me 2 days getting kicked from place to place to obtain the magic username "copyright" to get this message through to the "appropriate" address at amazon.com. Talk about the many layers of shell corporations...
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, skype name halpep, "Peacemaking" at pepinsky.blogspot.com
519 Evergreen Circle, Worthington, OH 43085-3667, 1-614-885-6341
________________________________________
From: Pepinsky, Harold E.
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:14 AM
To: info@copyright4creativity.eu
Subject: FW: Copyright Info on Listing Details ARN - 53732516
Please circulate this so that other authors/copyright holders of "rare" books who like me can ensure no one limits circulation of their work. You will find the book in question available for free download at critcrim.org . I only checked on amazon to see how the book was advertised after my pdf was already online. I have a lifelong commitment to the sacredness of free flow of honest information, especially from people who are most spoken for instead of being heard about themselves...a long story. Can you help me get this word out, because I'm sure that amazon isn't the only distributor rare book sellers are jacking up book prices for by suggesting they hold copyright? I'll bet it is an entrenched practice. I have long experience with opening up records to public scrutiny. I am known for always having put my contact info into "blind" article/book ms. reviews, for example. All of which is to say, if there is any way that a fairly experienced and committed nut on freedom of information sharing and accountability, and as a retiree with lots of time on my hands, please let me know if my experience/name/advocacy can be of help anywhere, anytime. Thanks for being there--love and peace--hal
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, skype name halpep, "Peacemaking" at pepinsky.blogspot.com
519 Evergreen Circle, Worthington, OH 43085-3667, 1-614-885-6341
________________________________________
From: Pepinsky, Harold E.
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:25 AM
To: copyright@amazon.com
Subject: FW: Copyright Info on Listing Details ARN - 53732516
your customer support agent just told me this copyright issue is for you. Note: This is not just about me, one author/copyright holder. It is about the bogus practice abebooks.com cites as policy below. Copyrighting an "original" photo of someone else's book cover? Give me a break. And if you check further, the criminologist in me guesses this might even be covert standard practice among rare book sellers.
Let me know what action you take, if any. regards--hal
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, skype name halpep, "Peacemaking" at pepinsky.blogspot.com
519 Evergreen Circle, Worthington, OH 43085-3667, 1-614-885-6341
________________________________________
From: Pepinsky, Harold E.
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:28 AM
To: security@amazon.com
Subject: FW: Copyright Info on Listing Details ARN - 53732516
This practice of putting a copyright notice on a picture of someone else's book cover has stopped for me. It needs to stop for everyone, as I'm sure you'll agree. thanks for your help--hal
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, skype name halpep, "Peacemaking" at pepinsky.blogspot.com
519 Evergreen Circle, Worthington, OH 43085-3667, 1-614-885-6341
________________________________________
From: Pepinsky, Harold E.
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:07 AM
To: buyertech@abebooks.com
Subject: RE: Copyright Info on Listing Details ARN - 53732516
You are not entitled to put a copyright notice on a picture of my cover. I have freed the book from copyright, and I don't want any hint of the situation being otherwise for ANY copy of the book. Please do what you need to simply to ensure that no picture of the book cover ever carries a copyright notice, especially to someone other than me. I saw yesterday that you had taken the image of the book off amazon. That's fine with me. I don't care whether you even offer the book for sale. Just con't put a copyright notice on a picture of the book cover. thanks--hal
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, skype name halpep, "Peacemaking" at pepinsky.blogspot.com
519 Evergreen Circle, Worthington, OH 43085-3667, 1-614-885-6341
________________________________________
From: buyertech@abebooks.com [buyertech@abebooks.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 1:17 AM
To: Pepinsky, Harold E.
Subject: Copyright Info on Listing Details ARN - 53732516
Hello Harold,
Thank you for contacting AbeBooks Customer Support about the Listing Details
page.
When a book listing is uploaded to AbeBooks, we will try to match the book
details or ISBN in our ISBN database. If a match is found, we may enhance the
listing with a photo, synopsis, review, or bibliographic details. Because this
information comes from our ISBN matching services, the Listing Details page
includes their copyright information.
AbeBooks is legally required to include this information with every listing that
may be matched in our database.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any further questions or concerns
and I will be happy to help.
Sincerely,
Megan H
AbeBooks Customer Support
AbeBooks.com Passion for books.
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*** your question/request ***
Please stop claiming copyright on my book, Harold E. Pepinsky, Crime and
Conflict: A Study of Law and Society (1976). I own the copyright, and have
donated a pdf to the critical criminology division of the american society of
criminology, on their website home page at critcrim.org . You are welcome to
advertise and sell the book to anyone who wants hard copy, since I have already
opened the book to free online access, and advertised that fact broadly. Some
people may want the original binding for their own reasons; I have no need to
keep or sell hard inventory. But please, withdraw your false copyright claim on
amazon. Many thanks--hal pepinsky@indiana.edu
*** end of question/request ***
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